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Mark Rothko Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees.”
— Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko: A Biography
Tagged: Art, Painting, Vision, Belief
“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, Jonathan Jones: Mark Rothko on the way the art world was/is going
Tagged: Ideology, Belief, Searching, deire, Silence, Growth
“To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.”
— Mark Rothko, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Art, Taking Risks, Being An Artist
“Silence is so accurate.”
— Mark Rothko, Silence is so Accurate
Tagged: Silence, Accuracy, Answer
“We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world... If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictorial equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.”
— Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko: A Biography
“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 academism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. We assert that only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.”
— Mark Rothko, A Letter from Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb to the Art Editor of the New York Times
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