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… - Arshile Gorky

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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 Ucello, Grunewald, Ingres, the drawings and sketches for paintings of Seurat and that man [=Pablo Picasso ]. I measure all things by weight.

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About Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky (15 April 1904 – 21 July 1948), born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, was an American abstract expressionist painter of Armenian descent, living and working in New York, where he got later strongly involved with American Surrealism. He was a very close friend of Willem de Kooning who respected him as a teacher in painting.

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Native Name: Արշիլ Գորկի
Alternative Names: Ostanik-Manuk Adoian • Arshil Gorʹkiĭ • Arshile Gorky Adoian • Arshil Gorky • Osdanig-Manug Atoyan • Arshil Gorki Adoyan • Wostanig Adoyan • Vosdanig Manoog Adoian • Ostanik-Manuk Adoyan • Arshil Gorki • Ostanik-Manuk Adoyean • Osdanig-Manug Atoian • Vostanik-Manuk Adoian • Arschille Gorky • Vosdanik Adoian • Arshele Gorky • Vosdanig Adoian • Archele Gorky • Archel Gorky • Archele Gorki • Arshile Gorkij • Adoian Gorky • a. gorky
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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. (1942)
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Originators like Arshile Gorky:
Paul Cézanne Willem de Kooning Karel Appel Philip Guston Wassily Kandinsky

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I have to go away, but with regrets and with the firm intention to come back soon. I consider most sound I am an individual Gorky – and it is my individual feeling which counts for the most. Why? I do not know nor do I wish to know. I accept it as a fact, which does not need explanation.
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