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Helen Frankenthaler
American
Artist
About the author
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist
#Art
#Invention
#Rules
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist
I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist
One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist
#Heart
The question of sex will take care of itself.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist
#Will
#Question
#Care
#Sex
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.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist
#Wonder
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist
#Problems
#Challenge
#Difficulty
#Learning
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist
#Control
#Accident
The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.
Helen Frankenthaler,
American
Artist