Quotes by Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

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Myth

Spirit

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

Painting

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

Companionship

Eye

Sensitive

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

Companionship

Eye

World

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.

Space

Trying

Wall

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

Anecdotes

Art

Mean

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Anecdotes

Art

Spirit

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.

Cases

Lows

Way

I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

Make You Think

Pretty Picture

Thinking

I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one’s arms again transcendental experiences became possible.

Believe

Breathing

Silence

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Colour

Common Sense

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Courage

Creation

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Doctors

Dollars

Down And

Drama

Emotion

Essence

Essentials

Exotic

Expression

Eye

Facts

Fall

Favourite

Fifty

Finals

Form

Giving

Glasses

Ideas

Identity

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Impact

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Interesting

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Quotes by Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

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

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

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.

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

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

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.

I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one’s arms again transcendental experiences became possible.

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