Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.

— Robert Motherwell

Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.

— Robert Motherwell

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

— Robert Motherwell

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

— Robert Motherwell

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

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

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

— Robert Motherwell