Joan Mitchell Professions : PainterBorn : February 12, 1925Died : October 30, 1992 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Joan Mitchell 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 landscapemirrorsfeelings 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 stylespaceuse 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 lakesfeelingswater White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst. Joan Mitchell colorwhitenurse Sunflowers are like people to me. Joan Mitchell sunflowerimaginationpeople Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painterAll Authors
