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Joan Mitchell - From the Abstraction category:
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Artists category:
A painting is not part of me. Because when I do paint, I am not aware of myself... It
is part of something else. Communication is very difficult. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Fashion category:
--in a conversation with Cora Cohen...
'The new season.' Sounds like couture. You know? Fashion. The new season is going to be this, and that's what it is. The art world has become the new season. What are they showing this year? Which is quite the opposite of, you know, carrying a painter. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Gender category:
I think women are inclined more than men to be self-destructive, and I really think I had the masochistic medal there for a while. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Happiness category:
I'm happy when I'm painting. I like it. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Imagination category:
Sunflowers are like people to me. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Meaning category:
It seems very clear what it means. I can't say it but the painting makes it clear. If I don't know, then it's not working. If it seems right to me, then it has a meaning, but I can't tell you what meaning. I can't be more specific than that. It works when it means something, when I don't question it any more. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Memory category:
I carry my landscapes around with me. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Painting category:
Once I'm starting to paint, then I paint. I mean, I can't even listen to music. Or I don't hear it until I'm not painting. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Painting category:
Sometimes I don't know exactly what I want. I check it out, recheck it for days or weeks. Sometimes there is more to do on it. Sometimes I am afraid of ruining what I have. Sometimes I am lazy, I don't finish it or I don't push it far enough. Sometimes I think it's a painting. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Pets category:
I must paint for me and my dogs. We are in the studio and they watch. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Rejection category:
Don't be worried about rejection. I say that now. It's terrible, I asked one of my dealers years ago 'If I don't sell are you going to dump me?' And he said, 'Sure.' But sales don't make a show. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Sleep category:
It's a security, sound. I sleep with a sound. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Subject category:
Sunflowers are something I feel very intensely. They look so wonderful when young and they are so very moving when they are dying. I don't like fields of sunflowers. I like them alone or, of course, painted by Van Gogh. (Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell - From the Time category:
Painting is the only art form except still
photography which is without time. Music takes time to listen to and ends, writing takes time and ends, movies end, ideas and even sculpture take time. Painting does not... It's a still place. It's like one word, one image... (Joan Mitchell)
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