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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
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Robert Motherwell
Age: 76 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 24
Died: 1991
Died: July 16
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Aberdeen
Washington
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The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?
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A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
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In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.
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Each brushstroke is a decision.
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Art is an experience, not an object.
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It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.
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The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.
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For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
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For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.
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Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.
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Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
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Wherever art appears, life disappears.
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Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.
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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.
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In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.
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The main thing is not to be dead.
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To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
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I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.
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If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.
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A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.
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