Helen Frankenthaler: Quotes about painting

Helen Frankenthaler was American artist. Explore interesting quotes on painting.

Helen Frankenthaler: 92 quotes2 likes

“I have a whole series of pictures that are, I mean in a sense, landscapes. Well, I wouldn't hold the landscape in front of me and translate it more abstractly into the painting, no. But I would - again in that American expedient thing you [Barbara Rose, earlier in the interview] were talking about - thinking ideas in my language. Sort of like today. 'Hm, bunch of roses', hm. 'Flags out the window', hm.... But once it got down on the surface I would say in 99 times out of a 100, out of 101, nobody would come along and say how come you put 'shoes' in a picture. I mean it would be too brown or too green.”

Helen Frankenthaler

quote about her way of 'abstraction'
1960s, Interview with Barbara Rose', Archives - American Art, 1968