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 More Quotes by Joan Mitchell More Quotes From 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 landscape mirrors feelings 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 lakes feelings water White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst. Joan Mitchell color white nurse Sunflowers are like people to me. Joan Mitchell sunflower imagination people
