Mark Rothko Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american artist Mark Rothko on topics like matter, painted, pictures

  • If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

    — Mark Rothko on antiquity
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  • I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

    — Mark Rothko on case
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  • It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

    — Mark Rothko on accepted
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  • Mark Rothko quote A painting is not a picture of an experience; It is an experience.

    A painting is not a picture of an experience; It is an experience.

    — Mark Rothko
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  • 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 on decorative
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  • That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

    — Mark Rothko on archaic
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  • It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

    — Mark Rothko on art
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  • Mark Rothko quote A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

    A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

    — Mark Rothko
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  • There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

    — Mark Rothko on painting
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  • Silence is so accurate.

    — Mark Rothko on accurate
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  • 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 on anecdote
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  • 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 on confined
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  • We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

    — Mark Rothko on assert
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  • About Mark Rothko

    Name Mark Rothko
    Quotes 11 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Artist
    Birthday October 16
    About American painter of Latvian Jewish descent. He immigrated with his family from Dvinsk (now part of Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire) to the United States in 1913 when he was 10 years old.
    Top topics matter, painted, pictures, silence, hang

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