I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. Helen Frankenthaler More Quotes by Helen Frankenthaler More Quotes From Helen Frankenthaler Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. Helen Frankenthaler clumsiness fascination challenges I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist. Helen Frankenthaler artist years thinking I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it. Helen Frankenthaler surface painting deny The question of sex will take care of itself. Helen Frankenthaler take-care care sex We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. Helen Frankenthaler size drawing matter One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute. Helen Frankenthaler you born heart beautiful The landscapes were in my arms as I did it. Helen Frankenthaler landscapes did were arms