..not paintings in the usual sense. They are life and death merging in fearful union (1950, on his own work, fh)
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Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 138Clyfford Still
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I'm now in a big working period, which takes me up so much that hardly anything of me remains. I have never been strong in theories and this becomes worse and worse. My work should give me satisfaction, and that is about life and death.. .. Several paintings full of life and beauty arose again and give me the courage and joy to proceed on the road. There are also several paintings in which I am involved for less than half, discharges in a short time, which have existence for a while, but will not reach shaping.
Bram van Velde
Through them (his paintings) I breathe again. (lost statement for his 1950 show)
Clyfford Still
It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. ‘Today’ is their creator. (1950, comment on his series ‘White Paintings’)
Robert Rauschenberg
I was making very aggressive provocative paintings. Whether the Rachel paintings, or the Diana paintings, I've sensed over the three or four years that I've been in getting press attention, I've sensed that it has not been that long since the woman painter was not allowed in the Royal Academy, and not allowed to paint nude men, and thee is such a huge body of work that men have made, versus the small body of work made by women, that I am not surprised to get this response.
Stella Vine
When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.
Anton Chekhov
Still, Clyfford
Stiller, Ben
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