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I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

Adolph Gottlieb

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Adolph Gottlieb
Age: 70 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 14
Died: 1974
Died: March 4
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New York City
New York
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