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«Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.»
Author: Mark Rothko
«The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.»
Author: Mark Rothko
«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.»
Author: Mark Rothko
«Silence is so accurate.»
Author: Mark Rothko
«Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.»
Author: Mark Rothko
«That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.»
Author: Mark Rothko
«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.»
Author: Mark Rothko
«There will be an exhibition, ... The question is when and how large. It is difficult to convince collectors and museums to send the paintings to Israel. The question of insurance presents difficulties for the project, but we intend to do such an exhibition within two to three years.»
Author: Mark Rothko
« From him I got my love for music, and for many years I was the classical music critic for magazines that have since folded, such as Musical America and High Fidelity. During the last year of his life, I would come to the studio, and he would arrange a corner for me with a canvas and paints. I don't think that I saw him paint. He didn't allow anyone to watch him. That was his own private affair.»
Author: Mark Rothko
«I have on occasion successfully dealt with this problem by tending to crowd the show rather than making it spare.»
Author: Mark Rothko
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