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“Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.”
Source: Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne
“Every picture one paints involves not painting others.”
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“Each brushstroke is a decision.”
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“I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.”
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“A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.”
“Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.”
“One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.”
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“The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.”
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“In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.”
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
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“Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.”
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“The main thing is not to be dead.”
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“To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.”