Art Quote by Jean Helion Download Open image “Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.” — Jean Helion ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Point of view Risk Views
Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good. — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, — James Agee Copy Share Image
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
