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Quotes from Beyond the Aesthetics — Robert Motherwell

1915–1991 United States

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One cuts and chooses and shifts and pastes, and sometimes tears off and begins again.

Beyond the Aesthetics (1946)

It is Cezanne's feeling that determined the form of his pictorial structure. It is his pictorial structure that gives off his feeling. If all his pictorial structures were to disappear from the world, so would a certain feeling..

Beyond the Aesthetics (1946)

The aesthetic is the sine qua none for art: if a work is not aesthetic, it is not art by definition.. .We feel through the senses, and everyone knows that the content of art is feeling; it is the creation of an object for sensing that is the artist's task; and it is the qualities of this object that constitute its felt content.

Beyond the Aesthetics (1946)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Motherwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.