Adolph Gottlieb on image
Adolph Gottlieb14 quotes“You arrive at the image through the act of painting.”
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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 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.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb The immediate presence of terror and fear.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb
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Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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Dear Society’ really is my letter to society where I express the anguish I’ve been caused from such an image-based industry and culture we live in.
Madison BeerMadison Beer I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
John DonneJohn Donne Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.
NostradamusNostradamus McDonald’s is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl’s face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.
Ray KrocRay Kroc