Artist Quote by 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

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

— Max Beckmann

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

— Pam Grier

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

— Niki de St. Phalle

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

— Elliott Smith

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

— Sean Scully

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it…

— M. C. Escher

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

— Georgia O'Keeffe