List of Mark Rothko Quotes

We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko
Total Quotes 52
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.
Wall Space Trying
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Matter Timeless Tragic
I'm not an abstractionist... i'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.
Form Not Interested Colour
The reason for my painting large canvases is that i want to be intimate and human.
Want Painting Intimacy
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
Breathing Silence Solitude
(i am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the spirit of myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
Anecdotes Spirit Myth
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.
Artist Essence Long
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.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.
Real Fall Ideas
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.
Real Giving Remembrance
Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.
Art Drama Monsters
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.
Fifty Dollars Looks
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.
Way Lows Cases
  • Born: September 25, 1903
  • Died: February 25, 1970
  • Occupation: Artist
    • Embed this Author
    Copy this HTML code to link to Mark Rothko's quotes on your blog.
    HTML CODE

    Trending Author

    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    Colin Powell
    Colin Powell
    Victoria Abril
    Victoria Abril
    Don Marquis
    Don Marquis
    Melissa Joan Hart
    Melissa Joan Hart
    Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech
    Category
    Information
    Inspirational
    Philosophy
    Personal Growth
    Happiness & Joy
    Life Lessons
    Success & Business
    Motivation