The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it,… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions..… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. — Mark Rothko Copy Share
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. — Mark Rothko Copy Share
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. — Mark Rothko Copy Share
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko Copy Share
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This… — Mark Rothko Copy Share
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. — Mark Rothko Copy Share
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence… — Mark Rothko Copy Share
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks. — Mark Rothko Copy Share
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must… — Mark Rothko Copy Share
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is… — Mark Rothko Copy Share
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of… — Mark Rothko Copy Share
