"Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never……" — Helen Frankenthaler
"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 three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away."
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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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What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether…
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There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.
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A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when…
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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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