Drastic Quotes by Robert Motherwell

It is true that every artist has his own religion.

— Robert Motherwell

The main thing is not to be dead.

— Robert Motherwell

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

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

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

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

— Robert Motherwell

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

— Robert Motherwell

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

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

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

— Robert Motherwell

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

— Robert Motherwell

Art is an experience, not an object.

— Robert Motherwell

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

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

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

— Robert Motherwell