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Mark Rothko Quotes

I don’t express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self Picture Quote #1

Silence is so accurate Picture Quote #1

I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions Picture Quote #1

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom Picture Quote #1

A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience Picture Quote #1

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama Picture Quote #1

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A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer Picture Quote #1

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes Picture Quote #1

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit Picture Quote #1

I am here to make you think... I am not here to make pretty pictures! Picture Quote #1

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art Picture Quote #1

If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point Picture Quote #1

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A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience Picture Quote #1

I have always dreamed of bringing an exhibit of Mark Rothko to Moscow Picture Quote #1

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing Picture Quote #1

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale Picture Quote #1

To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk Picture Quote #1

.. It was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes... But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it Picture Quote #1

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Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow Picture Quote #1

One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist Picture Quote #1

I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room Picture Quote #1

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended Picture Quote #1

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 experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn’t something you command Picture Quote #1

I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions Picture Quote #1

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I’m not an abstractionist... I’m not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else Picture Quote #1

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human Picture Quote #1

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done Picture Quote #1

Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it’s your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars Picture Quote #1

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk Picture Quote #1

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness Picture Quote #1

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I don’t express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self (Mark Rothko Quotes) Silence is so accurate (Mark Rothko Quotes) I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions. (Mark Rothko Quotes) 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 Quotes) A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience (Mark Rothko Quotes) Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama (Mark Rothko Quotes) A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer (Mark Rothko Quotes) My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes (Mark Rothko Quotes) Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit (Mark Rothko Quotes) I am here to make you think... I am not here to make pretty pictures! (Mark Rothko Quotes) That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art (Mark Rothko Quotes) If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point (Mark Rothko Quotes) A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience (Mark Rothko Quotes) I have always dreamed of bringing an exhibit of Mark Rothko to Moscow (Mark Rothko Quotes) There is no such thing as good painting about nothing (Mark Rothko Quotes) This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale (Mark Rothko Quotes) To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk (Mark Rothko Quotes) .. It was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes... But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it (Mark Rothko Quotes) 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 Quotes) One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist (Mark Rothko Quotes) I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room (Mark Rothko Quotes) Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended (Mark Rothko Quotes) 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 experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn’t something you command (Mark Rothko Quotes) I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions (Mark Rothko Quotes) I’m not an abstractionist... I’m not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else (Mark Rothko Quotes) The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human (Mark Rothko Quotes) While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done (Mark Rothko Quotes) Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it’s your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars (Mark Rothko Quotes) To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk (Mark Rothko Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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