It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it -… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art:… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract'… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely? — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share
