Dore Ashton Quotes

• art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

  Dore Ashton

  Art, May, Scientist

  Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

  Dore Ashton

  Difficult, Intellect, Painter

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• Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms.

  Dore Ashton

  Artist, Simple, Garden

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