Frankenthaler Helen Quotes & Sayings

I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone to beat me. — Serena Williams

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

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known. — Kenneth Noland

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

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

The question of sex will take care of itself. — 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

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler

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

After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters. — Andrew Shue

The skin along the parts in her hair, the skin above and behind the doctor's ears, is as clear and white as the skin inside her other tan lines must look. If women knew how their ears come across, the firm fleshy edge, the little dark hood at the top, all the smooth contours coiled and channeling you to the tight darkness inside, well, more women would wear their hair down. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm more from a double world where I wasn't part of anything or invested in anything, because I was Irish, and very Irish, but also the other part of my family, not that it had airs, or money, was descended from the first minister on Cape Ann in the 1620s. — William Monahan

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

Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama. — Jay Leno

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

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

[American Psycho] is throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety. — Andrew Motion

Every canvas is a journey all its own. — Helen Frankenthaler

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

I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do. — Helen Frankenthaler

I follow the rules until I go against them all. — Helen Frankenthaler

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

Who doesn't love Enya? Whenever I'm in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I'll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius. — Nicki Minaj

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out. — Kacy Catanzaro

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go. — Helen Frankenthaler

Few policies are more calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the debauching of its currency. And few tasks, if any, are more important to the champion of freedom than creation of a sound monetary system. — Hans F. Sennholz

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away. — Helen Frankenthaler

Does fate ever play by the rules? — Jodi Picoult

I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go. — Helen Frankenthaler