The immediate presence of terror and fear.
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB
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If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb My favorite symbols were those which I didn’t understand.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb It seems tome they are more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb Painting is self-discovery.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces,
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb Feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb I never use nature as a starting point.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
Henry JamesHenry James My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
Henry JamesHenry James This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real.
Primo LeviPrimo Levi [On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson