Carolina QuotesI believe that painter's judgments of painting are first ethical, then aesthetic, the aesthetic judgments flowing from an ethical context. Doubtless no painter systematically thinks this way; but it does seem to me to be basically what happens when modern painters judge any new manifestations of painting.. .An artist's 'art' is just his consciousness, developed slowly and painstakingly with many mistakes en route. How dare they collect those ugly early Van Gogh's like trophies...
Robert Motherwell Connected to the Carolinas
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pp. 109-110
- work
- 'The painter and the audience' (1954)
- year
- 1954
- locator
- pp. 109-110
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