Robert Motherwell on Love
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Robert Motherwell, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert Motherwell, entry #93864: "I love painting the way one loves the body of a women.. ..if painting must have an intellectual and social background, it is only to enhance and make more rich an essentially warm…"
Attributed to Robert Motherwell, entry #73465: "The passions are a kind of thirst, inexorable and intense, for certain feelings or felt states. To find or invent 'objects' whose felt quality satisfies the passions,- that for me…"
2 Quotes by Robert Motherwell on Love
"I love painting the way one loves the body of a women.. ..if painting must have an intellectual and social background, it is only to enhance and make more rich an essentially warm, simple, radiant act, for which everyone has a need."
"The passions are a kind of thirst, inexorable and intense, for certain feelings or felt states. To find or invent 'objects' whose felt quality satisfies the passions,- that for me is the activity of the artist, an activity which does not cease even in sleep. No wonder the artist is constantly placing and displacing, relating and rupturing relations; his task is to find a complex of qualities whose feeling is just right – veering toward the unknown and chaos, yet ordered and related in order to be apprehended."