Best 7 quotes of Adolph Gottlieb on MyQuotes

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

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.

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

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

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

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