Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Grace Hartigan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American painter Grace Hartigan.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and a significant member of the vibrant New York School of the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle of friends, who frequently inspired one another in their artistic endeavors, included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Frank O'Hara. Her paintings are held by numerous major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As director of the Maryland Institute College of Art's Hoffberger School of Painting, she influenced numerous young artists.

American - Painter | March 28, 1922 - November 15, 2008

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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

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

Grace Hartigan

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

Grace Hartigan

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

Grace Hartigan

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

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

Grace Hartigan

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

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

Grace Hartigan

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

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

Grace Hartigan

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

Grace Hartigan

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

Grace Hartigan