The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.
Robert MotherwellIf you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.
Robert MotherwellIn printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.
Robert MotherwellA main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.
Robert Motherwell