Art Quote by Robert Motherwell Download Open image “Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.” — Robert Motherwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Important Life Poor Poor life
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it, — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless, — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better. — Gertrude Stein 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
