73 Quotes by Robert Motherwell

The main thing is not to be dead.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

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.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

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.

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...

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Art is an experience, not an object.

What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.