"The main thing is not to be dead." — Robert Motherwell
"The main thing is not to be dead."
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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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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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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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