Joan Mitchell on Art
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Joan Mitchell, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Joan Mitchell, entry #92679: "Pop Art, Op Art, Flop Art and Slop Art.. .I fall into the last two categories ."
Attributed to Joan Mitchell, entry #56726: "Mitchell, 1960-61: 'Rock Bottom', paintingI don't make drips purposely. This drip business is a pile of shit. If I see them, I take them out like cleaning the house."
6 Quotes by Joan Mitchell on Art
"Pop Art, Op Art, Flop Art and Slop Art.. .I fall into the last two categories ."
"Mitchell, 1960-61: 'Rock Bottom', paintingI don't make drips purposely. This drip business is a pile of shit. If I see them, I take them out like cleaning the house."
"I've have tried to take from everybody .. .I can't close my eyes or limit my experiences.. .Because I live now, I am more interested in art now. It's different as any art is different from period to period. But it's no better or worse."
"And the first studio I went to .. .I was trying to find de Kooning because he had a painting at the Whitney, which was in the old Studio School , you know.. .And I thought I would like to know him. I really dug his painting, and I dug Gorky's painting.. .But the first studio I went into was Franz Kline.. .and there were all these Klines, unstretched, hanging on the brick walls. Beautiful. You know, with the telephone book drawings all over the floor, and Kline yakking away, and it was just, I was out of my mind! And so from then on I got involved in the Artists Club. They allowed very few women in, and I was included for $35 a year. And I got very involved in the Cedar Bar and the whole thing.."
"I started in, got it in summer of 67, Yeah, well, and then I started.. .I was still painting at Fremicourt and I remember starting the 'Sunflowers' , which I saw in Vetheuil and painted them in Fremicourt, you see.. .The thing about Fremicourt, also about St. Marks: I had to roll paintings to get them out, which was a real drag, because of thickness . And when I started painting in Vetheuil, you can just take the paintings out . Well, that really changed unconsciously an awful lot of.. .Walk them out stretched, it's great."
"Oh, early Kandinsky.. .Well no, they had that at the Art Institute in Chicago, don't forget. See, everybody, to do 'modern art' then , seemed to me, when you were going 'modern' , it was Picasso. I mean, everybody. But I avoided that like the plague. I thought.. .I loved Picasso, but it just wasn't for me.. .Well, I don't! I have some of those paintings from LeLavandou - they're in storage - and from Mexico. They were Expressionist landscapes, or boats on the beach or something like that, which I still do. Sort of going abstract, going towards.."