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Robert Motherwell was an American painter known for his abstract expressionist works. His art often features black and white colors, filled with strong emotions and philosophical thoughts. Motherwell held a significant position in the 20th-century art world, and his works have had a profound impact on later artists.

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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.”

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Book:Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne

Source: Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne

“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.”

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Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.”

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

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Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“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.”

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“Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.”

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Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

About the Author

Born: January 24, 1915
Died: July 16, 1991
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 54

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