Grace Hartigan Professions : Painter Born : March 28, 1922 Died : November 15, 2008 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Grace Hartigan A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle. Grace Hartigan struggle culture art I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions. Grace Hartigan asking answers art 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. Grace Hartigan trying ideas art I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well. Grace Hartigan women memorable long 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. Grace Hartigan equality fighting men I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, 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. Grace Hartigan house bird ideas 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. Grace Hartigan transformation challenges beautiful Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. Grace Hartigan logic trying world I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing. Grace Hartigan obsession important feelings A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way. Grace Hartigan creating men way Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion. Grace Hartigan painting emotion art I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius Grace Hartigan painting genius art Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painter All Authors
