All Mark Rothko Quotes
- The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it. Emotion
- A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience. Experience
- If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point. Color
- I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures! Inspirational
- Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, Anecdote
- The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who… Basic
- The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea… Achieve
- My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes Abstract
- There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. Black
- It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the… Achieve
- If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom. Big
- And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined… Beyond
- There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. Funny
- We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. Assert
- We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish… Complex
- Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price… Dollars
- The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees Expresses
- A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer Companionship
- This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. Common
- The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the… Artist
- Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama. Art
- While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work… Adequate
- You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… All
- The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. Canvases
- Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. Direct