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Robert Motherwell
January 24, 1915 - July 16, 1991
Nationality: American
Category: Artist
Subcategory: American Artist

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

   

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

   

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

   

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

   

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

   

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

   

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

   

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.

   

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