Top 17 Joan Mitchell Quotes
#1. As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.
Melissa De La Cruz
#2. And a sweet expression spreads over her fair face.
Sappho
#3. Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
Benjamin Franklin
#4. 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
#5. Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks
Win Quier
#6. Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.
Cheyenne Jackson
#7. If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.
Mark Twain
#8. 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
#9. Faith is a verb. An action, like love, that we do and live every day.
Joan L. 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. White ... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.
Joan Mitchell
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. The male ego bruises easier than an overripe apricot.
Sarah Tregay
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