Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
About Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwellwas an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
American artist (1915-1991)
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.
American artist (1915-1991)
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.
American artist (1915-1991)
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
American artist (1915-1991)
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
American artist (1915-1991)
If you can’t find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
American artist (1915-1991)
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
American artist (1915-1991)
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
American artist (1915-1991)