Adolph Gottlieb Quotes

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

Design is thinking made visual.

We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.