Adolph Gottlieb Quotes
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The role of the artist, of course,has always been that of image-maker. Different times require different images.
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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.
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If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.
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We were outcasts, roughly expressionist painters not acceptable to most dealers and collectors.(A reference to the TEN group of painters).
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To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all.. ..on the contrary it is realism of our time.
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To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
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We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non-representational painting.
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My favourite symbols were those I did not understand.