"A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image……" — Jean Helion
"A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend"
—
Jean Helion
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
11 Quotes by Jean Helion
Jean Helion has 11 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the…
-
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the…
-
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.
-
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order…
-
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer…
-
The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but…
-
Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys.…
-
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to…
-
Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.
-
No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching…
See all 11 quotes by Jean Helion »
More Abstraction Quotes
This quote is filed under Abstraction Quotes,
one of 249 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
-
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
-
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
-
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
-
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
-
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
-
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
-
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
-
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
-
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
-
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
-
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
See all 249 Abstraction Quotes »