"Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings,……" — Jean Helion
"Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself."
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11 Quotes by Jean Helion
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A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the…
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I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the…
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A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by…
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You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.
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All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order…
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Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer…
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The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but…
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Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys.…
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Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.
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No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching…
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