Arshile Gorky Quotes

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My sweet, I do not mean to upset you in writing this, but I want to tell you that within us, as within the nature of every person's soul there is an emptiness and we constantly seek to find that and those in order to escape from being alone. This always has been so, and always the weight of loneliness is with us, and for this reason we think of this thing or that so as not to be left alone.

Arshile Gorky

On social realism art in America:

Poor art for poor people...

Arshile Gorky

It would be a sad thing for an artist if he knew how to paint. – so sad. An artist paints because it is a challenge to him – it is like trying to twist the devil. If you overcome it, there is no sport left. I don't even like to talk about painting. It is impossible to talk about painting because I don't know what it is. If I knew what it was I would get out a patent and then no one else would be able to paint.

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky

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Born: April 15, 1904

Died: July 21, 1948 (aged 44)

Bio: Arshile Gorky was an Armenian born American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States.

Known for:

The Liver is the Cock's Comb (1944)
Garden in Sochi (1941)
Blue Figure in a Chair (1931)
Diary of a Seducer (1945)
One Year the Milkweed (1944)

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