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 bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.
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
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
Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees. - Jean Helion
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. - Jean Helion
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
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
A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. …
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
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…
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