Mark Rothko Quotes

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. - Mark Rothko

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

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

Silence is so accurate. - Mark Rothko

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

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