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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.
Robert Motherwell
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Robert Motherwell
Age: 76 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 24
Died: 1991
Died: July 16
Designer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Aberdeen
Washington
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Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.
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The main thing is not to be dead.
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Art is an experience, not an object.
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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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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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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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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
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Wherever art appears, life disappears.
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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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A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
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Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
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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 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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Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
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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 end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
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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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