Mary Heilmann Quotes

• Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

  Mary Heilmann

  Simple, Ideas, Meditation

  "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.

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• Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

  Mary Heilmann

  Waves Breaking, Lines, Painting

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• One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in the same painting. You have a kind of deep space, and then you have something like right up on the surface.

  Mary Heilmann

  Numbers, Space, Chinese

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