Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

Mark Rothko's Popular Quotes

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

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

- 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…

- 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

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

- 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…

- Mark Rothko

When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing…

- Mark Rothko

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

- Mark Rothko