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 ↗“It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair.”
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“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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