Editing Clyfford Still (section)

==Quotes==

===From Still===

"I never wanted color to be color. I never wanted texture to be texture, or images to become shapes. I wanted them all to fuse together into a living spirit."

"It's intolerable to be stopped by a frame's edge."<ref>''Clyfford Still,'' [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], 1976, p. 123</ref>

"I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man's 'time' limits him, it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is one of science, of mechanism, of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mechanism of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of a graphic homage."<ref>''Clyfford Still'', [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], 1976, p. 124</ref>

"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"

===From others===

*"Still makes the rest of us look academic." --[[Jackson Pollock]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sheets|first1=Hilarie M.|title=Rare Loan of Clyfford Still Paintings to Join Royal Academy Show|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/arts/design/rare-loan-of-clyfford-still-paintings-to-join-royal-academy-show.html|access-date=22 March 2018|work=The New York Times|date=12 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Stonard|first1=John-Paul|title=Abstract expressionism – not just macho heroes with brushes|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/03/abstract-expressionism-not-just-macho-heroes-with-brushes|access-date=22 March 2018|work=The Guardian|date=3 September 2016}}</ref>
*"His show (at Peggy Guggenheim's [[The Art of This Century Gallery]] in 1946), of all those early shows [Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell], was the most original. A bolt out of the blue. Most of us were still working through images ... Still had none."--[[Robert Motherwell]]<ref name="WaPo Motherwell Still had none">{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=David|title=All-to-his-own museum for America's greatest unknown painter, Clyfford Still|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/all-to-his-own-museum-for-americas-greatest-unknown-painter-clyfford-still/2012/04/05/gIQAHnd5zS_story.html|access-date=22 March 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=6 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="NYT Motherwell Bolt out of blue">{{cite news|last1=Madoff|first1=Steven Henry|title=ART; Unfurling the Hidden Work of a Lifetime|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/arts/design/18mado.html|access-date=22 March 2018|work=The New York Times|date=18 March 2007}}</ref><ref name="Painter's Table Motherwell">{{cite web|last1=Baker|first1=Brett|title=The Drawings of Clyfford Still|url=http://www.painters-table.com/blog/drawings-clyfford-still|publisher=Painter's Table|access-date=22 March 2018|date=23 April 2012}}</ref>
*"When I first saw a 1948 painting of Still's ... I was impressed as never before by how estranging and upsetting genuine originality in art can be."--[[Clement Greenberg]], [[art critic]]; "American-Type Painting", ''[[Partisan Review]]'', 1955, p.&nbsp;58.
*"It was in the mid-1940s that Still asserted himself as one of the most formally inventive artists of his generation."
:--John Golding, art historian; ''Paths to the Absolute'', 2000, [[Princeton University Press]]
*"With their crude palette-knifed and troweled surfaces, their immense space, their strong color, their relentless vertical and horizontal expansiveness, Still's abstract works project a forcefulness perhaps unequaled in [[Abstract Expressionist]] painting."
:--Stephen Polcari, art historian; ''[[Abstract Expressionism]] and the Modern Experience'', 1991, [[Cambridge University Press]]
*"A singular talent whose dimension will not be fully known in his own lifetime."--[[Robert Hughes (critic)|Robert Hughes]], former ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' [[art critic]]; ''Time'', ''Prairie Coriolanus'', February 9, 1976