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.
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.
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.
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…
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 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.
Art is an experience, not an object. - Robert Motherwell
Art is an experience, not an object.
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