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> [If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/if-our-titles-recall-the-known-myths-of-antiquity-we-have-used-them/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

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> [If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/if-our-titles-recall-the-known-myths-of-antiquity-we-have-used-them-2/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

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## Other authors on Antiquity

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/henry-david-thoreau/)
- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/ralph-waldo-emerson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-confucius-24951.jpg) Confucius 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/confucius/)

## More by Mark Rothko

> [Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/art-to-me-is-an-anecdote-of-the-spirit/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/without-monsters-and-gods-art-cannot-enact-a-drama/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/many-of-those-who-are-driven-to-this-life-are-desperately-searching/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/it-is-really-a-matter-of-ending-this-silence-and-solitude-of/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/this-would-be-a-distortion-of-their-meaning-since-the-pictures-are/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/the-picture-must-be-a-revelation-an-unexpected-and-unprecedented/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/to-me-art-is-an-adventure-into-an-unknown-world-which-can-be-explored/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/it-is-a-widely-accepted-notion-among-painters-that-it-does-not-matter/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/there-is-only-one-thing-i-fear-in-life-my-friend-one-day-the-black/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/i-do-not-believe-that-there-was-ever-a-question-of-being-abstract-or/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/art-is-an-adventure-into-an-unknown-world-which-can-only-be-explored/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/if-our-titles-recall-the-known-myths-of-antiquity-we-have-used-them/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/it-is-the-poet-and-philosopher-who-provide-the-community-of/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/the-myth-holds-us-therefore-not-through-its-romantic-flavor-not-the/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

> [If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/if-you-are-moved-only-by-the-color-relationships-then-you-miss-the/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

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