Adolph Gottlieb Quotes

• Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Discovery, Self, Painting

  Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”

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• In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Powerful, Expression, Violence

  "bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.

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• My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  My Favorite, Symbols

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• I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Emotional, Color, Feelings

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• Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  People, Certain, Should

  1947 In Tiger's Eye, vol.1, no.2, Dec, quoted in C Harrison and Paul Wood (eds) Art in Theory 1900-1990 (1992).

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• If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Innocence, Tradition, Form

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 51, 1990.

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• I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Color, Quality, Want

  Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”

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• I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Thinking, Use, Paint

  Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”

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