Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
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.
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…
Wherever art appears, life disappears. - Robert Motherwell
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. - Robert Motherwell
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
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.
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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