If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.
The main thing is not to be dead. - Robert Motherwell
The main thing is not to be dead.
- Robert Motherwell
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. - Robert Motherwell
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.
Wherever art appears, life disappears. - Robert Motherwell
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
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, a… - Robert Motherwell
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, a…
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. - Robert Motherwell
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.
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. - Robert Motherwell
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
Each brushstroke is a decision. - Robert Motherwell
Each brushstroke is a decision.
Art is an experience, not an object. - Robert Motherwell
Art is an experience, not an object.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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