"A really good picture looks as if it's……" — Helen Frankenthaler
"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 overworked, and you can read in it—well, she did this and then she did that, and then she did that—there is something in it that has not got to do with beautiful art to me. And I usually throw these out, though I think very often it takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce one really beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute."
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Helen Frankenthaler
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21 Quotes by Helen Frankenthaler
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I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see…
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There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.
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There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the…
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I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.
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A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
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The question of sex will take care of itself.
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We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was…
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Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful…
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You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to…
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Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's…
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