I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, 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 want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions. - 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
I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well. - Grace Hartigan
I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.
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
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 …
Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. - Grace Hartigan
Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way. - Grace Hartigan
A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.
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
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.
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 don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle. - Grace Hartigan
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
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
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 …
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