Through them (his paintings) I breathe again. (lost statement for his 1950 show)
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Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 145Clyfford Still
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I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist… ..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.
Jean Dubuffet
..not paintings in the usual sense. They are life and death merging in fearful union (1950, on his own work, fh)
Clyfford Still
It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. ‘Today’ is their creator. (1950, comment on his series ‘White Paintings’)
Robert Rauschenberg
With the black ones I was interested in getting complexity without their revealing much – in the fact that there was much to see but not much showing. I wanted to show a painting that could have the dignity of not calling attention to itself. In both the blacks and the whites (paintings, fh) there was none of the familiar aggressiveness of art that says, ‘Well, here it is, whether you like it or not’. (on his Black Paintings', fh)
Robert Rauschenberg
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, "let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible." I have lingered, of course.
Clive Barker
Still, Clyfford
Stiller, Ben
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