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

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

- 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

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

- 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

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to br…

- 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

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