"For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and……" — Robert Motherwell
"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, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world."
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Robert Motherwell
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54 Quotes by Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell has 54 quotes on this site.
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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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More Arrangement Quotes
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one of 254 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
— Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
— Aristotle
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
— Erik Erikson
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I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees…
— Tony La Russa
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's…
— Roberto Burle Marx
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— Will Durant
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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