Mark Rothko Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.

  Mark Rothko

  Lonely, Art, Men

• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Anecdotes, Spirit

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.45, Yale University Press

• 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.

  Mark Rothko

  Photography, Art, Creativity

• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Mean, Anecdotes

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.45, Yale University Press

• To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

  Mark Rothko

  Courage, Art, Adventure

• Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Drama, Monsters

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.59, Yale University Press

• My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Breathe, Abstract

• 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.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Doctors, Judging

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.2, Yale University Press

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