Robert Motherwell Quotes

"Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are."
- Robert Motherwell
(Related: 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
(Related: Time, Inspiration, Walking)

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."
- Robert Motherwell
(Related: Art, Deep, Examination, May, Necessity, Self)

"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
(Related: 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
(Related: Art, Painting, Tradition)

"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
(Related: Beauty, Song, Will)

"Wherever art appears, life disappears."
- Robert Motherwell
(Related: Art, Life)