Robert Motherwell Quotes

It's amazing what art can do.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

Art is not only about angst.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.