A really good picture looks as if it’s happened at once. It’s an immediate image.
About Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthalerwas an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting.
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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.
American painter
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.
American painter
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.
American painter
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.
American painter
The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.
American painter
I wanted things that I couldn’t at times articulate.
American painter
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.
American painter
A really good picture looks as if it’s happened at once. It’s an immediate image.
American painter
The question of sex will take care of itself.
American painter