Top 8 Quotes by Adolph Gottlieb

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

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

Discovery, Self, Painting

Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”

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

My Favorite, Symbols

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

Powerful, Expression, Violence

"bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.

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

Adolph Gottlieb

Emotional, Color, Feelings

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

People, Certain, Should

1947 In Tiger's Eye, vol.1, no.2, Dec, quoted in C Harrison and Paul Wood (eds) Art in Theory 1900-1990 (1992).