„Plastic automatism.... as employed by modern masters, like Masson, Miro, [both artists of Surrealism] and Picasso, is actually very little a question of the unconsciousness. It is much more a plastic weapon with which to invent new forms. As such it is one of the twentieth century greatest formal inventions.“
— Robert Motherwell
1940s, Modern Painter's World, Robert Motherwell , Dyn, Nov. 1942, p. 13