Arshile Gorky

“I do not paint in front of but from within nature.”

“We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.”

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”