Robert Motherwell Quotes - Page 3

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• For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Years, Leaving

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• 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.

  Robert Motherwell

  Writing, People, Tasks

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• The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Glasses, Blood

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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.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Labels, Letters

  Robert Motherwell, David Rosand (1997). “Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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