Rothko's Quotes
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Rothko's Quotes & Sayings
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Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
— Mark Rothko
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
— Mark Rothko
He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.
— Brice Marden
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
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
— Mark Rothko
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
— Mark Rothko
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
Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.
— Mark Rothko
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
— 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, doom.
— Mark Rothko
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
— Dominique De Menil
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
— Mark Rothko
The picture must be ... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
— Mark Rothko
the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
— Mark Rothko
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
— Mark Rothko
Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.
— John Ashbery
Mark Rothko once wrote, "Silence is so accurate." We
— Nicholas Tanek
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
— Mark Rothko
Pictures must be miraculous.
— Mark Rothko
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
My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes
— Mark Rothko
Silence is so accurate.
— Mark Rothko
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
— Mark Rothko