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One Quotes by Robert Motherwell
- In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
- One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
- In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize…
- If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.
- Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
- 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…
- The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?
- 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…
- 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…
- If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to…
- One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.
- If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
- 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…
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