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Adolph Gottlieb Quotes

Painter
1903 - 1974
9 quotes

Adolph Gottlieb, a painter (1903 - 1974), is quoted 9 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Painting, Quality, Color and Terms.

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Adolph Gottlieb / Painter

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

Adolph Gottlieb / Painter

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

Adolph Gottlieb / Painter

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

Adolph Gottlieb / Painter

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

Adolph Gottlieb / Painter

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

Adolph Gottlieb / Painter

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

Adolph Gottlieb / Painter

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 / Painter

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 / Painter

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

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