Quotes of 14 famous Women Artists, on the creation of art and on life - free resource, art history

Quotes of 14 famous Women artists, worldwide - on creating art & on their personal and artistic life - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in art history

14 Famous women-artists - here presented in their selected quotes and stories. They told and wrote about how they created their art and described their artistic life as a woman-artist.
You find her in 14 seperate PDF’s the collected quotes of the following 14 famous artists, worldwide: Mary Cassatt, Helen Frankenthaler, Isa Genzken, Barbara Hepworth, Frida Kahlo, Elaine de Kooning, Agnes Marin, Joan Mitchell, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Munter, Marianne Werefkin, Berthe Morisot and Marianne von Werefkin.

The artist-quotes I took from Wikiquote, where I contributed most of them during the period 2012-2017.
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Some quotes from the 14 selected famous woman-artists - as a short introduction of their extended artist quotes, in 14 individual PDF’s:

• ’They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.’ - quote of Frida Kahlo, in: ‘Mexican Autobiography’, Time Magazine, 27 April 1953

• ’I’m trying to remember what I felt about a certain cypress tree and I feel if I remember it, it will last me quite a long life.’ - quote of Joan Mitchell, in ‘Art News’, April 1965

• ’I have always been interested in oval or ovoid shapes… .Gradually my interest grew in more abstract values - the weight, poise and curvature of the ovoid as a basic form.’ - quote of Barbara Hepworth, in: ‘The Studio 132:643’, 1946

• ’My (paintings) have neither object nor space nor line nor anything – no forms. They are light, lightness, about merging, about formlessness, breaking down form.’ - quote of Agnes Martin, as cited by Ann Wilson in ‘Linear Webs’, Art and Artists 1, no. 7, Oct. 1966

• ’I always wanted to have the courage to do totally crazy, impossible, and also wrong things.’ - quote of Isa Genzken, as cited at the exhibition Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam: ‘Mach dich Hübsch’, 2015-2016
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  editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]