Quotes by Robert Motherwell

• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
• Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
• If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
• It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
• 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.
• Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
• 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.
• Wherever art appears, life disappears.