‘“Fear automatically closes inner chambers of the unconscious mind,” [John] Graham explained, which is ruinous to an artist because the unconscious “is the creative factor and the source and the storehouse of power and of all knowledge, past and future.” To those who wondered how to access the unconscious, he advised simply, “Experiment wildly . . . only these explosions constitute art.”’

: ninth street women. lee krasner, elaine de kooning, grace hartigan, joan mitchell, and helen frankenthaler: five painters and the movement that changed modern art, mary gabriel (p97)