Carolina 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 one finds oneself and one's own style.
Robert Motherwell Connected to the Carolinas
Source
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
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- 1951
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- p. 46
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“..no true artist ends with the style that he expected to hav…” Robert Motherwell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D5C607553A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d5c607553a
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