Photography Quotes by Mark Rothko

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

— Mark Rothko

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

— 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.

— Mark Rothko

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

— 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…

— Mark Rothko

The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

— Mark Rothko

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— 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…

— Mark Rothko

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

— 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…

— Mark Rothko

Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Mark Rothko

If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.

— Mark Rothko