Mark Rothko Quotes

Silence is so accurate.
Mark Rothko

Silence, Accurate

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

May, Trying, Last

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.
Mark Rothko

Long, Matter, Among

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
Mark Rothko

Art, Spiritual, Why

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
Mark Rothko

Good, Nothing, Painting

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Mark Rothko

Matter, Subject, Tragic

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

Art, Purpose, Making

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

Rather, Often, High

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

Again, Used, Fall

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

Living, Rather, Since

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: September 25, 1903

Died: February 25, 1970

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