All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
