"Painting is a medium in which the mind……" — Robert Motherwell
"Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content."
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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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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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