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.
- Helen Frankenthaler
More Quotes By Helen Frankenthaler
A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all... There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought... In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work,... What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it’s pastoral,... A really good picture looks as if it’s happened at once. It’s an immediate image. For my own... There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or... Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment... You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and... Every so often every artist feels, ‘I’ll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.’ In... There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.
Every canvas is a journey all its own.
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