Robert Motherwell Quotes

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

I know what my identity is.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

Fashion can really give you an identity if you're looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the less identity crises we'll have in the world.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.