I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. Robert Motherwell More Quotes by Robert Motherwell More Quotes From Robert Motherwell Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell importantlifeart 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, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between. Robert Motherwell communicationheartinteresting Art is an experience, not an object. Robert Motherwell art-isobjectsart 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 upliftingsongbeauty Wherever art appears, life disappears. Robert Motherwell umpiresarchitectureart 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 mediumspaintingmind If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees. Robert Motherwell flowergivingchildren Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. Robert Motherwell painterethicalconsciousness I feel most real to myself in the studio. Robert Motherwell studiosrealfeels The main thing is not to be dead. Robert Motherwell Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling. Robert Motherwell paintingdoefeelings The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely? Robert Motherwell languagefeelingsneeds If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out. Robert Motherwell painterpaintingwould-be 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. Robert Motherwell creativitycreativeart In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted. Robert Motherwell realizingthousandends A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. Robert Motherwell interactionmediumsself I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all. Robert Motherwell paintingabstractproblem One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. Robert Motherwell unionseffortart It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. Robert Motherwell deceptionselfart Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation Robert Motherwell twentieth-centuryinnovationcentury
