Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwellwas an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth24 January 1915
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Motherwell quotes about
consciousness ethical painter
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
innovation century collages
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
realizing ends thousand
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.
painting problem abstract
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.
incentives paint poor
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.