Mark Rothko
American (Latvian-born) · 1903–1970
Abstract Expressionist painter whose luminous color-field canvases sought to evoke fundamental human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
Wikipedia ↗“I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
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“The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.”
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“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”
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“Silence is so accurate.”
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