Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottliebwas an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth14 March 1903
CountryUnited States of America
effects enter equivalent experience purely terms verbal visual work
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.
emotional color feelings
I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
thinking use paint
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
color quality want
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
powerful expression violence
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.
people certain should
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.
my-favorite symbols
My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
innocence tradition form
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
discovery self painting
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.