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
anxiety abstract-painting common
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.
incentives paint poor
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.
opposites trying painting
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.
choices painting paint
Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
ideas world painting
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
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.
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.
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.
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...
consciousness ethical painter
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
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.
choices decision
Each brushstroke is a decision.