Best Robert Motherwell Quotes
- What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've… Another Person
- I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering. Blundering
- In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific… Expression
- If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good,… Back Like
- It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one… Abstract
- I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. Almost Never
- The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely? Express
- To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with… Carton
- I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. Abstract
- In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it… Accumulated
- It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being... Art
- For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… Arrangement
- I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal,… Basic
- Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a… Certain
- It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a… From
- If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to… Ask
- An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is… Any
- It is true that every artist has his own religion. Artist
- A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. Emerges
- Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. Any
- One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. Art
- By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people… Call
- Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every… All
- Wherever art appears, life disappears. Appears
- Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. All