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
choices decision
Each brushstroke is a decision.
american-artist art
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
self mediums subjects
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
wine blood glasses
The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations...
everyday world way
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.
anxiety abstract-painting common
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.
art firsts abstract
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
art modern-life unconventional
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.
dream order perception
Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.
power size different
It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.
incentives paint poor
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.
art reality degrees
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.
art appearance abstract
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
people mountain mouths
The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.