Grace Hartigan Quotes
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A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
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I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.
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I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius
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I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
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Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
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Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.
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I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.
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If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
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I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.
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A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.
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In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.
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Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
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