Mark Rothko Quotes
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~ Mark Rothko Quote
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
~ Mark Rothko Quote
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way
~ Mark Rothko Quote
I have on occasion successfully dealt with this problem by tending to crowd the show rather than making it spare.
~ Mark Rothko Quote
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
~ Mark Rothko Quote
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 Quote
I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture
~ Mark Rothko Quote
Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls
~ Mark Rothko Quote
A picture lives by companionship. 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.
~ Mark Rothko Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Silence is so accurate.
~ Mark Rothko Quote
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
~ Mark Rothko Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
