Top 12 Quotes by Grace Hartigan

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

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

Art, Struggle, Culture

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

Art, Asking, Answers

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

Fighting, Equality, Men

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.

Grace Hartigan

Ideas, House, Bird

"Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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

Grace Hartigan

Women, Memorable, Long

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.

Grace Hartigan

Art, Ideas, Trying

"Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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.

Grace Hartigan

Beautiful, Challenges, Transformation

"Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.