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
art self deception
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
realizing ends thousand
In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.
innovation century collages
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
book years twenties
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
mind painting mediums
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.
would-be painting painter
If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out...
creativity creative like-you
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
consciousness ethical painter
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
art art-is objects
Art is an experience, not an object.
communication heart interesting
What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.
beauty uplifting song
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
art umpires architecture
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
art important poor
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.