Frankenthaler Quotes

#1. In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

Kenneth Noland

#2. 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.

Helen Frankenthaler

#3. The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.

Helen Frankenthaler

#4. I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

Helen Frankenthaler

#5. I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.

Karl Pilkington

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

Helen Frankenthaler

#9. Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

Oprah Winfrey

#10. 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

#11. I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.

Helen Frankenthaler

#12. Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

Helen Frankenthaler

#13. 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

#14. 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.

Helen Frankenthaler

#15. I follow the rules until I go against them all.

Helen Frankenthaler

#16. The question of sex will take care of itself.

Helen Frankenthaler

#17. In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

Helen Frankenthaler

#18. A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

Helen Frankenthaler

#19. One car behind him. Two more ahead. The plane was now in

Anthony Horowitz

#20. There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are ... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it and do something with it.

Helen Frankenthaler

#21. I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.

Helen Frankenthaler

#22. En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

Denis Diderot

#23. What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

Helen Frankenthaler

#24. There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

Helen Frankenthaler

#25. I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

A.S. King

#26. 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

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

Helen Frankenthaler

#28. 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

#29. Every canvas is a journey all its own.

Helen Frankenthaler

#30. I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.

Jim McKay

#31. When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

#32. I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

Graham Yost

#33. Anyway, I'm glad you found her. (Calypso) You promised to find a way back to her, and I just wanted to say that if we do survive all this, I'll do anything to help you. Thats a promise I will keep.

Rick Riordan

#34. Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you.

John Bosco

#35. I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.

Helen Frankenthaler

#36. I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

Helen Frankenthaler