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Mark Rothko has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
• A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.
• If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.
• I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!
• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,
• The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions..…
• The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and…
• My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes
• There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
• It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the…
• If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions -…
• And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well…

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