.. no true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began,... it is only by giving oneself up completely to the painting medium that one finds oneself and one's own style.


In: The School of New York, exhibition catalogue, Perls Gallery, 1951; as quoted in the New York School – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row Publishers, 1978, p. 46

Robert Motherwell Quotes

No true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began,... it is only by giving oneself up completely to the painting medium that...

No true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began,... it is only by giving oneself up completely to the painting medium that...

No true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began,... it is only by giving oneself up completely to the painting medium that...

No true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began,... it is only by giving oneself up completely to the painting medium that...