"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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Source : "bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.

Adolph Gottlieb

#Powerful Quotes #Expression Quotes #Violence Quotes

“Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.”
“To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.”
“What falls away is always. And is near.”
“True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.”

Source : Steven Brust (1999). “The Book of Jhereg”, p.58, Penguin
“All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.”
“Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.”

Source : Eva Hesse, Nicholas Serota, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft (1979). “Eva Hesse: sculpture : [catalog of an exhibition held at] Whitechapel Art Gallery, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft”
“You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.”
“Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.”

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