Adolph Gottlieb Quotes

#1. 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.

Adolph Gottlieb

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

Adolph Gottlieb

#3. Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

J.K. Rowling

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

Adolph Gottlieb

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

Adolph Gottlieb

#6. Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

Germaine Greer

#7. When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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

Adolph Gottlieb

#9. Stop talking about it and just WRITE!

C.K. Webb

#10. This boy at school taught me. But then he pulled my ponytail on the playground the next day, so I'm not really friends with him anymore."
"Why did he pull your ponytail?"
"Momma says boys are mean when they like you," she whispered in a disgusted voice. "But I think Momma's been misinformed.

Shelly Crane

#11. Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#12. This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no way to finish, and perhaps that shouldn't be the goal.

Pamela Paul

#13. 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.

Adolph Gottlieb

#14. I am going to give you my heart now, ... Please don't break it again.

Jessica Verday

#15. I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.

Dan Barker

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

Adolph Gottlieb

#17. Harlow would later write, If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

Jonah Lehrer

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

Adolph Gottlieb

#19. However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

Ian McEwan

#20. 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.

Adolph Gottlieb

#21. If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.

Al-Ghazali