Helion Quotes

#1. Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

Jean Helion

#2. No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored ...

Jean Helion

#3. Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

Jean Helion

#4. Smartass Disciple: Master, why God let human did sins in the beginning?
Master of Stupidity: If the saviour must come, why should He prevent that?

Toba Beta

#5. I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

Jean Helion

#6. There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.

Michael Mina

#7. Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Maxim Gorky

#8. The image gets built one way or another ... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

Jean Helion

#9. You know you wouldn't be happy unless you married an odd sort of person

Vera Brittain

#10. Don't try to be just a success; try to be someone who really cares.

Debasish Mridha

#11. When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Robert McChesney

#12. A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

Jean Helion

#13. I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.

Malin Akerman

#14. Helion let out a dark laugh.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that ... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Jean Helion

#16. I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Mathias Rust

#17. All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.

Jean Helion

#18. You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

Jean Helion

#19. He leaned back a little, not taking his arm from around me, but looking into my eyes.
You're changing, Zoey. And I'm not sure what you're changing into.

P.C. Cast

#20. Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

Jean Helion

#21. A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Charles Spurgeon

#22. There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.

Victoria Woodhull

#23. Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

James M. Kouzes

#24. A harmonious combination ... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

Jean Helion