“I really think art is basically a moral enterprise. And that the artistry, if you want to put it that way, is the beauty and completeness with which a moral position is asserted. But the very nature of this beauty is dependent on the moral position. [...] And I don’t mean this in a superior or self-righteous or any holier than thou ways, but almost primitively, as a kind of animal thirst for something solidly real. It’s directed to what one really feels and not to what one prefers to feel, or thinks one feels.”     

Robert Motherwell

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