Robert Motherwell Quote

It would be very difficult to formulate a position in which there were no external relations. I cannot imagine any structure being defined as though it only has internal meaning.


In: Modern Artists in America, First Series, R. Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt and B. Karpel eds., 1952; as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 40


It would be very difficult to formulate a position in which there were no external relations. I cannot imagine any structure being defined as though...

It would be very difficult to formulate a position in which there were no external relations. I cannot imagine any structure being defined as though...

It would be very difficult to formulate a position in which there were no external relations. I cannot imagine any structure being defined as though...

It would be very difficult to formulate a position in which there were no external relations. I cannot imagine any structure being defined as though...