Joan Mitchell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.
-- Joan Mitchell

#Space #Style #Use
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.
-- Joan Mitchell

#Lakes #Water #Feelings
White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.
-- Joan Mitchell

#Color #White #Nurse
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.
-- Joan Mitchell

#Mirrors #Feelings #Landscape
Sunflowers are like people to me.
-- Joan Mitchell

#People #Imagination #Sunflower

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.
Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

Joan Mitchell famous quotes

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