Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. Robert Motherwell If you can't find your inspiration by… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without 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 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
