For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have… — 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 medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or… — 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
