"In a way, painting is like wine: it……" — Robert Motherwell
"In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential."
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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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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own…
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
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