Quotes from Robert Motherwell

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

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

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.

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

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

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.

The main thing is not to be dead.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Everybody has his own revelations, but the mass of the totality has never been revealed to anybody.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

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

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

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

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

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.

Art is an experience, not an object.