What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking,… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard,… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
