I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures! — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees — 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
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
