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Quotes from The painter and the audience — Robert Motherwell

1915–1991 United States

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A modern painter may have many audiences or one or none; he paints in relation to none of them, though he longs for the audience of other modern painters.

The painter and the audience (1954)

..for most painters nowadays [1954] examination is self-examination – this is all that we are accustomed to – while the relation to the audience is a social matter. And it is our pictures, not ourselves, that live the social life and meet the public.

The painter and the audience (1954)

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