Helen Frankenthaler Quotes

"A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image."
- Helen Frankenthaler

"I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate."
- Helen Frankenthaler

"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
(Related: Heart)

"The question of sex will take care of itself."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Sex, Care, Question, Will)

"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
(Related: 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
(Related: Challenge, Difficulty, Learning, Problems)

"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
(Related: Control, Accident)

"The landscapes were in my arms as I did it."
- Helen Frankenthaler