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Joan Mitchell Quotes

1925–1992 United States

Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American "second generation" Abstract expressionism painter and printmaker. She was an essential member of the American abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France and from 1959 her definite place.

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I'm trying to remember what I felt about a certain cypress tree and I feel if I remember it, it will last me quite a long life.

I don't make drips [in her painting] purposely. This drip business is a pile of shit. If I see them, I take them out [of her painting] like cleaning the house.

Pop Art, Op Art, Flop Art and Slop Art.. .I fall into the last two categories [her remark, in the mid 1970’s] .

It's [the color white] death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. You can add in Melville, Moby Dick a chapter on white. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst. [quote c. 1957]

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