Quotes from Adolph Gottlieb

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.

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.

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

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

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