"It is true that every artist has his…" — Robert Motherwell

"It is true that every artist has his own religion."

— 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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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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