Mark Rothko Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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.

  Mark Rothko

  Religious, Color, People

• A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

  Mark Rothko

  Painting

• 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.

  Mark Rothko

  Fifty, Dollars, Looks

• The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.

  Mark Rothko

  Glasses, Views, Looks

• There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

  Mark Rothko

  Artist, Painting

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

• The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

  Mark Rothko

  Thinking, Interesting, Painting

• I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

  Mark Rothko

  Self, Expression, Painting

• You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.

  Mark Rothko

  Thinking, Finals, Looks

• The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

  Mark Rothko

  Religious, People, Emotion

• The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

  Mark Rothko

  Want, Painting, Intimacy

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