If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes - Mark Rothko
My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes
- Mark Rothko
I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures! - Mark Rothko
I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit. - Mark Rothko
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experie… - Mark Rothko
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experie…
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. - Mark Rothko
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. - Mark Rothko
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human em… - Mark Rothko
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human em…
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. - Mark Rothko
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees - Mark Rothko
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
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