Artist Quotes by Grace Hartigan

A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.

— Grace Hartigan

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

— Grace Hartigan

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

— Grace Hartigan

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

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

— Grace Hartigan

Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and…

— Grace Hartigan

In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very…

— Grace Hartigan

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

— Grace Hartigan

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

— Grace Hartigan

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

— Grace Hartigan

I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales…

— Grace Hartigan