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In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself. — Robert Motherwell

Art is an experience, not an object. — Robert Motherwell

Wherever art appears, life disappears. — Robert Motherwell

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. — Robert Motherwell

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

It is true that every artist has his own religion. — Robert Motherwell

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

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. — Robert Motherwell

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

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

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. — Robert Motherwell

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

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — 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

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. — Robert Motherwell

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. — Robert Motherwell

The main thing is not to be dead. — Robert Motherwell

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation — Robert Motherwell

It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being ... — Robert Motherwell

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

I never had the ... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. — Robert Motherwell

Each brushstroke is a decision. — Robert Motherwell

I feel most real to myself in the studio. — Robert Motherwell

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

Every picture one paints involves not painting others. — Robert Motherwell

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with. — Robert Motherwell

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

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell

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

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

I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering. — Robert Motherwell

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain. — Robert Motherwell