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
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.
art breathe abstract
My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes
color missing ifs
If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.
exotic strange realizing
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.
imagination common-sense world
This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
intimacy creation instant
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
self expression painting
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.
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.
form not-interested colour
I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.
art mean anecdotes
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
journey artist essentials
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.
thinking make-you-think pretty-picture
I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!
ideas obstacles clarity
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.
men light color
I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.