Interesting Quote by Mark Rothko

“The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees”

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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

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Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

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Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

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It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

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This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and…

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The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

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To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This…

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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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I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence…

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