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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

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I'm Interested Only In Expressing Basic Human

Mark Rothko

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.

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The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that i can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience i had when painting them. and if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. and the characters in these books and plays and so on, and in real life, i might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. i feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!

Things break all the time. glass and dishes and fingernails. cars and contracts and potato chips. you can break a record, a horse, a dollar. you can break the ice. there are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. day breaks, waves break, voices break. chains can be broken. so can silence, and fever... promises break. hearts break.

Sometimes when i'm alone i cry, cause i am on my own. the tears i cry are bitter and warm. they flow with life but take no form i cry because my heart is torn. i find it difficult to carry on. if i had an ear to confide in, i would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on. the world moves fast and it would rather pass by. then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. and sometimes... i cry and no one cares about why.

Pictures! pictures! pictures! often, before i learned, did i wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which i had never seen in real wake-a-day life. they tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that i was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.

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 emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

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