Quotes by : Mark Rothko

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates.....

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation,....

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

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.....

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else.....

You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two....

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing....

It is really one of the most serious faults which can be found with the whole conception of democracy,....

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

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into....