Joan Mitchell, her artist quotes on painting & life in France - free resource, American art history

Joan Mitchell in quotes - the famous artist on her abstract painting and her life in the United States, later in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history

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Joan Mitchell, describes in quotes her artistic life in the United States and later in France. She explains her main artistic goal to create painting as a means of ‘feeling / living’. Painting meant for her the one and only art-form without ‘time running’. She enjoyed and loved this rather quite character of painting art very much.

Mitchell refers in her quotes to the strong inspiration she got by viewing the late paintings of the French artist Claude Monet, like his famous ‘Water lilies’. As American artist, living in France Joan Mitchell felt herself an ‘alien’ and needed therefore all her art in the maps as her convincing individual identity: ‘I need to know where I am’. She tells how it is the painting itself which commands her what to do. Frequently she expressed her intense feelings while creating her art.
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Some selected artist quotes of the famous American artist Joan Mitchell - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’…the feeling in a line of poetry which makes it different from, a line of prose… .Sentimentality is self-pity, your own swamp. Weeping in your own beer is not a feeling. It lacks dignity and hasn’t an outside reference.’ - Mitchell’s quote from the interview with Irving Sandler, c. 1956

• ’People will never understand what we (New York musiciens and the abstract artists) are doing if they can’t feel… .All art is abstract. All music is abstract. But it’s all real…’. - Mitchell’s quote c. 1960’s, as cited by by David Anram in ‘The Stamp of Impulse, Abstract expressionist prints’, 2001 p. 21

• ’Light is something very special. It has nothing to do with white. Either you see it or you don’t… …Matisse, Goya, Chardin, Van Gogh, Sam Francis, Kline have it. But it has nothing to do with being the best painter at all.’ - quote of Joan Mitchell, as cited in Marcia Tucker’s ‘Whitney’ catalogue, 1974
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  selection of free art-resources on Amercian artist Joan Mitchell:

  • biographical notes on Joan Mitchell, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mitchell
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Joan Mitchell, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Mitchell
  • images of the painting art of Joan Mitchell, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Joan Mitchell
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]