Robert Motherwell Quotes

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted