I love painting the way one loves the body of a women.... if painting must have an intellectual and social background, it is only to enhance and make more rich an essentially warm, simple, radiant act, for which everyone has a need. (Robert Motherwell)

I love painting the way one loves the body of a women.... if painting must have an intellectual and social background, it is only to enhance and make more rich an essentially warm, simple, radiant act, for which everyone has a need.

Robert Motherwell

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