Robert Motherwell Quotes

• All my life I’ve been working on the work-every canvas a sentence or paragraph of it. Each picture is only an approximation of what I want.

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• Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head…everything he paints is both an homage and a critique.

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• One of the most striking of abstract art’s appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

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• It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

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• Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

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• Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

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• If you can’t find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

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• It’s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It’s more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

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• Wherever art appears, life disappears.

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• Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

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• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

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Robert Motherwell (11)

Birth:	24th January, 1915
Death:	16th July, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Painter

About

Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston.

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