"For twenty years I read a book a……" — Robert Motherwell

"For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven."

— 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…
In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which…
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like…
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a…
In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity…
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
The main thing is not to be dead.
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

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