Robert Motherwell Quotes

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

I wanted to be a painter.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

All my work begins with drawings.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.