Art Quote by Mark Rothko Download Open image “That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.” — Mark Rothko ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Kinship Primitive Profess Religion Spiritual Why
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with… — Alain LeRoy Locke Copy Share Image
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Renaissance - as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
