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Wherever art appears, life disappears.
— Robert Motherwell
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Robert Motherwell
painter, printmaker, lithographer, graphic artist, collagist, draftsperson, serigrapher, editor
1915 – 1991
Robert Motherwell was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
All Quotes by Robert Motherwell
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Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
— Robert Motherwell
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
— Robert Motherwell
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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.
— Robert Motherwell
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
— Robert Motherwell