Arshile Gorky Quote

I like the heat the tenderness the edible the lusciousness the song of a single person the bathtub full of water to bathe myself beneath the water.... I like the wheat-fields the plough the apricots those flirts of the sun. But bread above all.

p. 31: (in Gorky Memorial Exhibition, Schwabacher pp. 28) - posthumous published quotes, after 1948 - Movements in art since 1945