What did Robert Motherwell mean by: One’s art is just one’s effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA Copy
+ Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Motherwell, Art, Important, 0 - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA
+ A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Motherwell, Mediums, Self, 0 - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA
+ Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Motherwell, Abstract, Art, 0 - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA
+ Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Motherwell, Consciousness, Ethical, Painter, 0 - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA
+ I never had the… common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given ‘meaning. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Motherwell, Anxiety, Common, 0 - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA
+ For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Motherwell, Book, 0 - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA
+ To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Motherwell, Beautiful, Canvas, Empty, 0 - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA
+ Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Motherwell, Incentives, Paint, Poor, 0 - Robert Motherwell Painter · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
