Art Quote by Mark Rothko

“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything…

— Mark Rothko

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

— Mark Rothko

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy,…

— Mark Rothko

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

“Colours, sounds, words and actions are all imbued with specific emotions, subjectively for each experience. It's therefor a great sorrow that the sexy energy…

— Monaristw

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.

— Anabel Jensen

Color transmits and translates emotion.

— Wassily Kandinsky

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…

— Mark Rothko

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I…

— Willem de Kooning

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore