"Every picture one paints involves not painting others." — Robert Motherwell
"Every picture one paints involves not painting others."
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Robert Motherwell
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54 Quotes by Robert Motherwell
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For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like…
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In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
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Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which…
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Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like…
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Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a…
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In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity…
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Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
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The main thing is not to be dead.
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Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
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To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
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— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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