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When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

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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.

Art, Formula, Moments, Nothing, Taste
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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.

Drawing, Effective, Matter, Sift, Size

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.

Art, Born, Breaking Rules, Breakthroughs, Happen, Inspirational

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.

Looks, Surface, Use, Way, Ways

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

Know, Risk, Surprise, Things, Ugly

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and overworked, and you can read in it—well, she did this and then she did that, and then she did that—there is something in it that has not got to do with beautiful art to me. And I usually throw these out, though I think very often it takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce one really beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute.

Art, Beautiful, Heart, Thinking, Usually, Wrist
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