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

- 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

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

- 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 pretentious idea that I want to make life, I …

- Grace Hartigan

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

- 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 fascinate …

- Grace Hartigan

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

- Grace Hartigan

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

- Grace Hartigan