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

—Robert Motherwell

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About Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.

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

—Robert Motherwell

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

—Robert Motherwell

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Fake food—I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut—is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

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Despair is a greater deceiver than hope.

—Marqui de Vauvenargues

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

—Abraham Lincoln

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

—Virginia Woolf

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