Robert Motherwell Quotes

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell

Life, Art, Important

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

Beauty, Dark, Song

Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Robert Motherwell

Art, Life, Wherever

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

Creative, Act, Critical

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Robert Motherwell

Degree, Becomes, Generally

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

Time, Two, Find

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

Art, Person, Matter

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 24, 1915

Died: July 16, 1991

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