"In the brush doing what it is doing,……" — Robert Motherwell
"In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself."
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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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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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Art is an experience, not an object.
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More Brush Quotes
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
— Alton Brown
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Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of…
— Sandra Bullock
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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the…
— Prince Charles
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Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who…
— Jerry Pate
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but…
— Drake
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Make your face not look like your face by piling on like the heaviest makeup you can find and do…
— Jenna Marbles
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If you can't move your brush good, just move your face.
— Jenna Marbles
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what…
— Hippolyte Taine
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The mind paints before the brush.
— James Ellis
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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
— Joan Miro
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