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I didn't choose painting … It chose me. I didn't have any talent. I just had genius.

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Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

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Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me... Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional pain remembered in tranquillity.

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I feel that we are living a very fragmented life; the whole world — you too. So 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 — that doesn't deter me in the least.

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Born: March 28, 1922
Died: November 15, 2008 (aged 86)
Bio: Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.

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