73 Quotes by Robert Motherwell

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

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

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life – rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one’s feeling precisely?

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.

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

Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation.

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.

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.