Quotes by Grace Hartigan

I don’t mind being miserable as long as I’m painting well.
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I don’t mind being miserable as long as I’m painting well.
A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.
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A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.
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 me.
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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 me.
I don’t see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.
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I don’t see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.
Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
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Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
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I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
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.
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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.
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
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A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
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Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.