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Robert Motherwell Quotes: The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?
         

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?


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

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



Art is an experience, not an object.

Art is an experience, not an object.



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.

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.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.



Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.



Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.



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.

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.



Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.



The main thing is not to be dead.

The main thing is not to be dead.



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.

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.





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True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work

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Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

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I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think.

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Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

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Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

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