Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates…

- Jean Helion

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

- Jean Helion

No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth re…

- Jean Helion

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.

- Jean Helion

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

- Jean Helion

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 ha…

- Jean Helion

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

- Jean Helion

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. …

- Jean Helion

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…

- Jean Helion