Robert Motherwell on Life
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Robert Motherwell, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert Motherwell, entry #161530: "A modern painter may have many audiences or one or none; he paints in relation to none of them, though he longs for the audience of other modern painters."
Attributed to Robert Motherwell, entry #86854: "'Robert Motherwell, Master of Abstract, Dies', by Grace Glueck, 'New York Times, 18 July 1991"
5 Quotes by Robert Motherwell on Life
"A modern painter may have many audiences or one or none; he paints in relation to none of them, though he longs for the audience of other modern painters."
"'Robert Motherwell, Master of Abstract, Dies', by Grace Glueck, 'New York Times, 18 July 1991"
"..for most painters nowadays examination is self-examination – this is all that we are accustomed to – while the relation to the audience is a social matter. And it is our pictures, not ourselves, that live the social life and meet the public."
"Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic."
"All my life I've been working on the work - every canvas a sentence or paragraph of it. Each picture is only an approximation of what you want. That's the beauty of being an artist; you can never make the absolute statement, but the desire to do so as an approximation keeps you going."