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Mark Rothko has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
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I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always…
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Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.
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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was…
— Mark Rothko
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Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you?…
— Cornelia Funke
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When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors.…
— John Logan
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.
— Arpad Busson
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Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.
— Errol Morris
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