Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Heilmann

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.

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

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