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Top 20 Helen Frankenthaler Quotes (2025 Update)

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “Every canvas is a journey all its own.”

1. “Every canvas is a journey all its own.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “I’d rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.”

3. “I’d rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “I follow the rules until I go against them all.”

5. “I follow the rules until I go against them all.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.”

6. “I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “A really good picture looks as if it’s happened at once. It’s an immediate image.”

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

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.”

11. “There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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?”

12. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “I wanted things that I couldn’t at times articulate.”

14. “I wanted things that I couldn’t at times articulate.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “I don’t start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.”

15. “I don’t start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “I don’t resent being a female painter. I don’t exploit it. I paint.”

18. “I don’t resent being a female painter. I don’t exploit it. I paint.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.”

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

— Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Quote: “There are no rules. That is how art is born.”

21. “There are no rules. That is how art is born.”

— Helen Frankenthaler

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

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

— Helen Frankenthaler

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