Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Mark Rothko
- 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 really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again.
- To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
- 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.
- If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions – tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
- 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.
- 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.
- For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.
- A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.
- 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.
Mark Rothko was an American painter born in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia) on September 25, 1903. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1913 and settled in Portland, Oregon. Rothko attended Yale University on a scholarship but left before completing his degree to move to New York City in 1925.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Rothko was associated with a group of artists known as the “New York School” or “Abstract Expressionists,” which included Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. He began painting in a style characterized by large, rectangular forms and fields of color, which would become his signature style. In the 1950s, Rothko’s work evolved to feature more subdued colors and blurred edges.
Rothko’s work is often described as being “spiritual” or “meditative,” and he was influenced by the ideas of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the writings of Carl Jung. His paintings have been exhibited in major museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Tragically, Rothko suffered from depression throughout his life and committed suicide on February 25, 1970, at the age of 66.
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