Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Joan Mitchell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American painter Joan Mitchell.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Joan Mitchell was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artists in the 1950s. A native of Chicago, she is associated with the American abstract expressionist movement, even though she lived in France for much of her career.

American - Painter | February 12, 1925 - October 30, 1992

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White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

Joan Mitchell

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

Joan Mitchell

Sunflowers are like people to me.

Joan Mitchell

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.

Joan Mitchell

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

Joan Mitchell