I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself. — 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
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
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
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with. — 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
