Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)

“I am very much influenced by nature as you define it... I paint from remembered landscapes that carry with me—and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would like more to paint what it leaves me with.”
 
Letter from Mitchell, in John I. H. Baur, Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture in Nature in Twentieth Century American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958, p. 75.