Grace Hartigan Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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.

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

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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

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

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

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