Robert Motherwell Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 24, 1915 - July 16, 1991

Topics

ArtPaintingMaskTraditionPerson

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.

John Burroughs

WinterBetterAirSoundsSharper

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

John Barton

PoetryInquiryPoemExcitingAgent

With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.

Joe Wright

MyselfPressureBackCamelBroke

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

Jean M. Auel

BeginningMeStoryWriteFirstBeen

I have as many pairs of sneakers as I have shoes.

Alysia Reiner

ShoesSneakersPairsMany

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood.

Spike Jonze

FireChildhoodListeningWake UpUp

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

TimeYouStopMoreHimGuy

I had a very happy childhood.

Juan Antonio Bayona

ChildhoodHappyHappy ChildhoodVery

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

Judith Ellen Foster

WorkWomenTodayTimeWomanCountry

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

LifeLiveManHumanHuman LifePoet

We need to get big money out of Washington.

Conner Eldridge

MoneyWashingtonNeedOutBigGet

I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

Chuck Liddell

FightWinProblemYouPlayManager

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