Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rotkovich, was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an abstract expressionist. With Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he is one of the most famous postwar American artists...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth25 September 1903
CountryUnited States of America
way lows cases
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.
religious people emotion
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
wall space trying
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.
order identity association
With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.
needs unexpected revelations
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
form not-interested colour
I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.
drama way renaissance
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
breathing silence solitude
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
looks fifty dollars
Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
roots silence pockets
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.
self expression painting
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.
matter timeless tragic
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
american-artist archaic kinship profess
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
american-artist intimate normal opposite painted pictures scale since
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.