Robert Motherwell Quotes - Page 3

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• A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Struggle, Simple

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• 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.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Years, Leaving

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

  Robert Motherwell

  Writing, People, Tasks

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• The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Glasses, Blood

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