Quotes by Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence… To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist’s problem.

Art

Simple

Struggle

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

Interaction

Mediums

Self

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life – rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

Art

Modern Life

Unconventional

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

Abstract

Art

Firsts

An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true – to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth – the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

Art

Degrees

Reality

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

Incentives

Paint

Poor

Art is an experience, not an object.

Art

Art Is

Objects

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

Art

Important

Life

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing – or word processing, as it’s known to the same people who call journalism ‘content.

People

Tasks

Writing

Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation

Century

Innovation

Twentieth Century

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Abstract Painting

Anxiety

Appearance

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Art

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Artist

Beautiful

Beauty

Being Me

Block

Blood

Book

Brushes

Canvas

Century

Children

Choices

Common

Communication

Consciousness

Creative

Creativity

Culture

Deception

Decision

Degrees

Different

Doe

Done

Drawing

Dream

Effort

Empty

Encounters

Ends

Ethical

Everyday

Feelings

Feels

Firsts

Flower

Giving

Glasses

Heart

Ideas

Important

Incentives

Innovation

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Quotes by Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence… To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist’s problem.

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life – rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true – to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth – the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

Art is an experience, not an object.

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

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing – or word processing, as it’s known to the same people who call journalism ‘content.

Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation

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