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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.
Robert Motherwell
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Robert Motherwell
Age: 76 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 24
Died: 1991
Died: July 16
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Washington
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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.
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In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
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To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.
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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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Art is an experience, not an object.
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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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To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
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Wherever art appears, life disappears.
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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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Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.
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The main thing is not to be dead.
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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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Each brushstroke is a decision.
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Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
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If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.
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It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being.
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The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.
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If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.
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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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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
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