I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
Adolph GottliebIn 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 GottliebI never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
Adolph Gottlieb