- Robert Motherwell: It's like a life-long relationship with a person whom you really love - there are different moods, different nuances, and in one sense there's a basic real continuity that never alters, but in the duration of time there are more or less emphases at any given moment.
- Robert Motherwell: I have a feeling that I might move away more from structure than I used to, but one has to understand that what's meant by structure - what a structure is, is the relation among elements, and in that sense everything has some kind of structure. So that when one talks about structure versus spontaneity, one is actually assuming only one kind of structure. And there are many kinds of structure. And I would think that the main opening for the future of modern art is a new kind of structure. I think after seventy years of 20 th century art, most of the existing structures have been pretty thoroughly, on one level or another, investigated. But such an opening, in the end, cannot be on just aesthetic grounds, but has to be when a certain vision forces one to try an alternative structural relation.
- Robert Motherwell: Art is certainly involved in some kind of transcendence, and anybody that is an artist not only embodies his times, but in many ways transcends them and connects deeply with the past.