Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwellwas an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth24 January 1915
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Motherwell quotes about
suave looks done
I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.
choices painting paint
Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
art years leaving
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.
ideas world painting
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
artist
It is true that every artist has his own religion.
art matter painting
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
art effort unions
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.
art feelings being-me
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being...
art profound innovation
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.
block inspiration two
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.
painting problem abstract
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.
real intelligent culture
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.
feelings doe painting
Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.
The main thing is not to be dead.