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Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was 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.

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For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Everyday, Painter, Way, World

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

Appetite, Mountain, Mouths, People

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

Abstract, Art, Modern Life, Romantic, Sensitive, Unconventional

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.

Become, Mediums, Mind, Painting, Tends, Thought

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

Art, Deception, Deep, Necessity, Self

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence. . . To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.

Art, Bourgeoisie, Direct, Problem, Simple, Struggle

I never had the. . . common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

Abstract Painting, Anxiety, Common, Meaning

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Appears, Architecture, Art, Umpires, Wherever

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

Abstract, Anger, Art, Expressionism, Firsts

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Art, Effort, Unions, Universe, Wed

Art is an experience, not an object.

Art, Art Is, Experience, Object, Objects

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

Carries, Culture, Everything, Intelligent, Real, Says

If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.

Bouquet, Children, Essential, Flower, Giving, Landscape

It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being.

Art, Being Me, Feeling, Feelings, Medium, Work

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

Feeling, Feelings, Language, Needs, Precisely, Problems

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.

Communication, Heart, Interesting, Look, Rare

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.

Carton, Labels, Letters, Things, Way, Wine

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

Book, Day, Seven, Twenties, Years

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.

Art, Certain, Encounters, Point, Sometimes, Undergoing

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.

Art, Leaving, Moved, Wayside, Years

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