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Mark Rothko Art Quotes - 1903 / 1970 |
Art Quotations by Mark Rothko. (born Mark
Rothkowitz)
Famous Latvian born American Abstract Expressionist
painter
Famous works include : Large abstract paintings
using color fields and brush work to create works
of a spiritual quality.
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+ It was with the utmost reluctance that I found
the figure could not serve my purposes. But a time
came when none of us could use the figure without
mutilating it.
+ The progression of a painter's work as it travels
in time from point to point, will be toward clarity..
toward the elimination of all obstacles between
the painter and the idea.. and the idea and the
observer.. To achieve this clarity is inevitably
to be understood.
+ 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. This would be
a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures
are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of
what is decorative.
+ I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested
in the relationship of color or form or anything
else. I’m interested only in expressing basic
human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
+ 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.
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
+ The fact that people break down and cry when confronted
with my pictures shows that I can communicate those
basic human emotions.. the people who weep before
my pictures are having the same religious experience
I had when painting them. And if you say you are
moved only by their color relationships then you
miss the point.
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