Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature.
ADOLPH GOTTLIEBIf we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.
More Adolph Gottlieb Quotes
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My favorite symbols were those which I didn’t understand.
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Painting is self-discovery.
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The immediate presence of terror and fear.
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In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant.
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I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
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I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…
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You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
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All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces,
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Feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
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If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.
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I never use nature as a starting point.
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It seems tome they are more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
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I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
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