Mary Heilmann quotes

“Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.”
-- Mary Heilmann

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“Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.”
-- Mary Heilmann

Source : "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.

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“One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in the same painting. You have a kind of deep space, and then you have something like right up on the surface.”
-- Mary Heilmann

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“The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.”

“We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.”

“Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.”

“What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.”

“Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.”

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.90, tredition

“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

“I found I have to stay painting.”

“I always start a painting with the sky.”