All Mark Rothko Quotes
- I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else. Abstractionist
- I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures… Basic
- I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. Express
- The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself… Canvases
- Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. Completed
- The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. Eternally
- Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. Desperately
- Silence is so accurate. Accurate
- Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. Anecdote
- It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is… Academicism
- I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as… Case
- It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. Arms
- The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve… Everything Strange
- When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,… Activity
- I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions:… Abstractionist
- A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky… Companionship
- To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. Adventure
- That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. Archaic
- 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… Antiquity
- This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have… Been
- Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks. Adventure