Helen Frankenthaler Quotes

• I follow the rules until I go against them all.

  Helen Frankenthaler

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• A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The question of s*x will take care of itself.

  Helen Frankenthaler

• The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.

  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

• I wanted things that I couldn’t at times articulate.

  Helen Frankenthaler

• A really good picture looks as if it’s happened at once. It’s an immediate image.

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Helen Frankenthaler (11)

Birth:	12th December, 1928
Death:	27th December, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter

About

Helen Frankenthaler was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. She began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She studied at the Dalton School under muralist Rufino Tamayo and also at Bennington College in Vermont. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

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