Carolina QuotesWe must remember that ideas modify feelings. The anti-intellectualism of English and American artists has led them to the error of not perceiving the connection between the feeling of modern forms and modern ideas. By feeling is meant the response of the 'body-and-mind' as a whole to the events of reality.
Robert Motherwell Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Modern Painter's World, ed. Robert Motherwell , Dyn, Nov. 1942, p. 9
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- 1942
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- p. 9
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