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

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I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.

Mark Rothko's Popular Quotes

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

- Mark Rothko

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

- 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