Top 17 Joan Mitchell Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Joan Mitchell

#1. Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

#2. I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.

Ronee Blakley

#3. The male ego bruises easier than an overripe apricot.

Sarah Tregay

#4. Sunflowers are like people to me.

Joan Mitchell

#5. Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

H. Richard Niebuhr

#6. A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell.

Meghan Daum

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Joan Mitchell

#10. 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

#11. Faith is a verb. An action, like love, that we do and live every day.

Joan L. Mitchell

#12. I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.

Melora Hardin