All Helen Frankenthaler Quotes
- 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 artist,… Artist
- What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset… Beautiful
- 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 for… Agonizing
- There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go. Funny
- A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and… Art
- There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention… Art
- I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate. Articulate
- A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. Funny
- The question of sex will take care of itself. Care
- We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms… Drawing
- Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating… Challenge
- 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… Accident
- Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a… Art
- Every canvas is a journey all its own. All
- I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do. Rather Risk
- I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. Exploit
- I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go. Color
- 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 person… Accidents
- I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist. Arms
- One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in… Beautiful