Mark Rothko Quotes
Top 27 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Mark Rothko on Wise Famous Quotes.
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
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.
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.
The picture must be ... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.