Robert Motherwell Quotes

Robert Motherwell — American Artist born on January 24, 1915, died on July 16, 1991

Robert Motherwell was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

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.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Robert Motherwell Quotes

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