Quotes of Robert Motherwell

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

- Robert Motherwell

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“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli