One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — 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
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. — 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 that be… — 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 unconsciously develops,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
