Robert Motherwell Quotes

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

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

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous.

It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask.

Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.