I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations … - Jean Helion

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If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

Jean Helion

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

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Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

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The image gets built one way or another. . . it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

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Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that. . . awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

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A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

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Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

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All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

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