73 Quotes by Robert Motherwell

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

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.

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.

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

I feel most real to myself in the studio.