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.
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)