“We must remember that ideas modify feelings. The anti-intellectualism of English and American artists has led them to the error of not perceiving the connection between the feeling of modern forms and modern ideas. By feeling is meant the response of the 'body-and-mind' as a whole to the events of reality.”
“It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.”
Robert Motherwell
“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”
Robert Motherwell
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
Robert Motherwell
“Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.”
Robert Motherwell
“Plastic automatism.. ..as employed by modern masters, like Masson, Miro, [both artists of Surrealism] and Picasso, is actually very little a question of the unconsciousness. It is much more a plastic ...”
Robert Motherwell
