"The image gets built one way or another...……" — Jean Helion
"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 order that you have in your mind."
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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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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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Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to…
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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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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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