Arshile Gorky in his artist quotes on painting, Cubism & life - free resource, American art history

Arshile Gorky in quotes - the Armenian-born artist on his painting art, his love for Cubism & his life in the U.S. - free art-resource for students, pupils and teachers in Amercian art history

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In his artist quotes Gorky refers often to his Armenian roots where he was born and writes about the Persian rugs as his strong inspiration. Gorky often refers to Cubism as a huge inspiration for his painting art. He emphasizes the role of ‘accident’ as a basic element in creating his art. He hated ‘finishing’ a painting; it must go on and on, for ever…

Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-born, American modern artist - very sensitive and with a lot of imagination, in personal life and in his art - as his quotes clearly reveal. As young painter Gorky was strongly influenced by the art of Picasso. Later in his life in the United States he got more and more involved in New York Surrealism; it was Andre Breton who called him the real ‘American Surrealist’.
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Some selected artist-quotes of American artist Arshile Gorky - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’These days a very melancholic mood has taken hold of me. There is nothing else but my work. My dear ones, I have been well and I have been working and my way of working is changing. For this reason I always feel extremely anxious… .I want to attain works which are more personal and clean…’ - quote of Gorky, in a letter from the U.S. to his Armenian sister Vartush, 28 Febr. 1938

• ’Historically, it has been the artist’s role to make manifest the beautiful inherent in all the objects of nature and man. In the study of the object, as a thing seen, he has acquired a profound understanding and sensibility concerning its visual aspects…’ - Gorky’s quote, in ‘Camouflage’, 1942, teaching program

• ’I don’t like that word ‘finish’. When something is finished, that means it’s dead, doesn’t it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting… .I like painting because it’s something I never come to the end of. - quote of Gorky, 1948, in ‘Movements in art since 1945’, Edward Lucie-Smith, 1975, p 32
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  selection free art-resources on American artist Arshile Gorky:

  • extended biographical notes of Gorky, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arshile_Gorky
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Gorky, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arshile_Gorky
  • images of the painting art of Gorky, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/arshile-gorky
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]