"We would sift through every inch of what……" — Helen Frankenthaler
"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 of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing."
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Helen Frankenthaler
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21 Quotes by Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler has 21 quotes on this site.
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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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Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I…
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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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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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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's…
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
— Victoria Beckham
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