Grace Hartigan Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion. — 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 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

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. — Grace Hartigan

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