Grace Hartigan Quotes

• A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Struggle, Culture

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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.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Asking, Answers

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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.

  Grace Hartigan

  Fighting, Equality, 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.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, House, Bird

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

  Grace Hartigan

  Women, Memorable, Long

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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.

  Grace Hartigan

  Beautiful, Challenges, Transformation

  "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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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.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Ideas, Trying

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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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.

  Grace Hartigan

  Trying, World, Logic

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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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.

  Grace Hartigan

  Feelings, Important, Obsession

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• I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Genius, Painting

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• A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.

  Grace Hartigan

  Men, Creating, Way

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• Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Emotion, Painting

  "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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