8 Quotes by Jean Helion

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

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.

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

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

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 restored...

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.

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them – but is there really any point in that? Doesn’t truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

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