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The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
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A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.
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If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.
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I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,
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The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions..…
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The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and…
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My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes
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There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
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It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the…
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If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions -…
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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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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
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Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
— Mark Rothko
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
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Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am…
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