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Clyfford Still

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Also known as Clyfford E. Still, Clifford Still

American artist (1904-1980)

Person · Open Library

Born
1904
Works
6

Top works

  • Clyfford Still : Dark Hues / Close Values
  • A light of his own
  • Paintings by Clyfford Still
  • Clyfford Still, 1904-1980
  • Clyfford Still: thirty-three paintings in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1904-11-30
Active to
1980-06-23

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Quotes

  • The best works are often those with the fewest and simplest elements.. ..until you look at them a little more, and things start to happen.
  • [These are] not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.
  • Through them [his paintings] I breathe again.
  • We are now committed to an unqualified art, not illustrating outworn myths or contemporary alibis. One must accept total responsibility for what he executes. And the measure of his greatness will be in the depth of his insight and his courage in realizing his own vision.
  • The observer usually will see what his fears and hopes and learning teach him to see. But if he can escape these demands that hold up a mirror to himself, then perhaps some of the implications of the work may be felt. But whatever is seen of felt it should be remembered that for me these paintings had to be something else. It is the price one has to pay for clarity when one’s means are honoured only as an instrument of seduction or assault.
  • ..the light suggests no particular time of day or night [in the paintings of Paul Cézanne ]; it is not appropriated from morning or afternoon, sunlight or shadow.

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