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List of Helen Frankenthaler Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 26 inspiring quotes by Helen Frankenthaler.

About Helen Frankenthaler

  • Born: December 12, 1928
  • Died: December 27, 2011
  • Occupation: Painter
    • 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.
    Drawing Matter Size
    The question of sex will take care of itself.
    Sex Care Take Care
    I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. but i think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.
    Artist Thinking Years
    I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
    Painting Deny Surface
    A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. it's an immediate image.
    Looks Happened Ifs
    The price for living the life i have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. i think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success.
    Loneliness Live Life Thinking
    What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.
    Sex Successful Thinking
    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.
    Challenges Fascination Clumsiness
    Every so often every artist feels, 'i'll never paint again. the muse has gone out the window.' in 1985, i hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. i looked at reproductions. i stared at matisse. i stared at the old masters. i stared at the quattrocento. and i thought to myself - don't push it! if you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away.
    Artist Trying Three
    A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.
    Beautiful Looks Made
    I wanted things that i couldn't at times articulate.
    Wanted
    I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as i go.
    Order Color
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