"I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting 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 â€” that doesn't deter me in the least."

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Source : "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

Grace Hartigan

#Ideas Quotes #House Quotes #Bird Quotes

“I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.”
“You threaten my son, you threaten me.”
“There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.”
“That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace"”
“I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.”

Source : Edna O'Brien (1985). “A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien”, Plume
“When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.”
“Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1934). “The End of a Childhood”

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