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

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

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

- 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.

- Robert Motherwell

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

- Robert Motherwell

Each brushstroke is a decision.

- Robert Motherwell

Art is an experience, not an object.

- Robert Motherwell

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

- Robert Motherwell