Every canvas is a journey all its own.
Helen FrankenthalerRead
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote conveys pride in being a female artist without letting gender define her work.
In this quote, Helen Frankenthaler expresses her identity as a female painter with confidence and determination. She emphasizes that she does not hold resentment towards her gender nor uses it as a tool for exploitation or attention; instead, her primary focus is on the act of painting itself. This highlights her dedication to her craft and her belief in the merit of her work over any societal labels.
Themes
Female ArtistPaintingIdentityCreativityGender
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about women's contributions to art, I could mention this quote to highlight female empowerment.
More from Helen Frankenthaler
All quotes βThere 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 FrankenthalerRead
I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.
Helen FrankenthalerRead
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 FrankenthalerRead
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 FrankenthalerRead
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 FrankenthalerRead
Similar quotes
I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'
Alejandro JodorowskyRead
I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
Paul NewmanRead
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
John DeweyRead
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
Mahatma GandhiRead
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.
Rupi KaurRead
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans HofmannRead