"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."

--

Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (1980). “Helen Frankenthaler prints, 1961-1979”, HarperCollins

Helen Frankenthaler

#Challenges Quotes #Fascination Quotes #Clumsiness Quotes

“I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.”
“People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.”
“The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!”
“Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.”
“The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.”
“In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, â€œEverything is interwoven, and the web is holy.”
“But the way to wealth through the quill seems long ...”

Source : Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.53

You may also like:

Franz Kline
Painter
Hans Hofmann
Painter
Jackson Pollock
Artist
Joan Mitchell
Painter
Kenneth Noland
Painter
Lee Krasner
Artist
Mark Rothko
Artist
Robert Motherwell
Painter
Willem de Kooning
Artist