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Robert Motherwell
American
Artist
About the author
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell,
American
Artist
#Life
#Art
#Poor
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Robert Motherwell,
American
Artist
#People
#Man
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
Robert Motherwell,
American
Artist
#Time
#Walking
#Inspiration
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Robert Motherwell,
American
Artist
#Art
#May
#Necessity
#Self
#Deep
#Examination
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,
American
Artist
#Act
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,
American
Artist
#Art
#Tradition
#Painting
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,
American
Artist
#Will
#Song
#Beauty
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Robert Motherwell,
American
Artist
#Life
#Art