You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it. — 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
