Grace Hartigan Quotes

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Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 – November 15, 2008) was an Abstract Expressionist painter. She gained her reputation as part of the New York School of artists who emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.

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

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.

Contemporary Artists: A-K (2002)

I didn’t choose painting … It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grace Hartigan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.