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. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
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. — 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 Image
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
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 Image
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
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 Image
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
