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States of Grace: Remembering Grace Hartigan (19222008)

Grace Hartigan

"I didn't choose painting," Grace Hartigan once told an interviewer, "It chose me. I didn't have any talent. I just had genius." I came to Grace Hartigan through her association with the poet Frank O'Hara. Full Article at Eye Level

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  1. I didn't choose painting ... It chose me. I didn't have any talent. I just had genius.
    SOURCE: Eye Level 11 months ago
  2. Grace/to be born and live as variously as possible.
    SOURCE: Eye Level 11 months ago
  3. I still consider myself, in formal terms, a New York School Abstract Expressionist.
    SOURCE: The Independent 12 months ago
  4. Pop Art is not painting, because painting must have content and emotion
    SOURCE: The Independent 12 months ago
  5. much rather be seen as a pioneer of a movement that I hate than in the second generation of a movement that I love
    SOURCE: The Independent 12 months ago
  6. I find that the subject of discrimination is only ever brought up by inferior talents to excuse their own inadequacy as artists
    SOURCE: The Independent 12 months ago
  7. Grace / To be born and live as variously as possible
    SOURCE: The Independent 12 months ago
  8. in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
    SOURCE: United Press International 12 months ago
  9. I’d much rather be a pioneer of a movement that I hate than the second generation of a movement that I love.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 13 months ago
  10. 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
    SOURCE: The New York Times 13 months ago
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