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Mark Rothko quotes: Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

Mark Rothko quotes: There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

Mark Rothko quotes: Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

Mark Rothko quotes: There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

Mark Rothko quotes: If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

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

Mark Rothko quotes: We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

Mark Rothko quotes: I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

Mark Rothko quotes: A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Mark Rothko quotes: And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

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

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

Mark Rothko quotes: the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.

the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.

Mark Rothko quotes: The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

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

Mark Rothko quotes: The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

Mark Rothko quotes: I am here to make you think ... I am not here to make pretty pictures!

I am here to make you think ... I am not here to make pretty pictures!

Mark Rothko quotes: Pictures must be miraculous.

Pictures must be miraculous.

Mark Rothko quotes: Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Mark Rothko quotes: My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

Mark Rothko quotes: Silence is so accurate.

Silence is so accurate.

Mark Rothko quotes: There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

Mark Rothko quotes: Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.

Mark Rothko quotes: That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Mark Rothko quotes: (I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

Mark Rothko quotes: This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.