Mark Rothko Quotes
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Mark Rothko Quotes & Sayings
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James Van Der Beek and I go way back. We were in the movie 'Angus' together in 1994 or 1995, so I've known him for a million years.
— Kevin Connolly
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
— Mark Rothko
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
— Mark Rothko
My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.
— Felicia Day
I hope so," grumbled Ian. "I'm going to look for another one of 'em winged dogs for Mabel.
— Ness Kingsley
Well you know for me, the action is the juice.
— Tom Sizemore
'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite movie of all time.
— Paul Pierce
The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.
— Mark Rothko
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
— Mark Rothko
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
— Mark Rothko
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
— Mark Rothko
Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.
— Mark Rothko
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
— Mark Rothko
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
— Mark Rothko
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
— Mark Rothko
I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.
— Alissa Nutting
A thorn in your side is better than a thorn in your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
— Mark Rothko
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
— Mark Rothko
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
— Mark Rothko
Silence is so accurate.
— Mark Rothko
Well, I can wear heels now.
— Nicole Kidman
My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes
— Mark Rothko
The picture must be ... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
— Mark Rothko
Pictures must be miraculous.
— Mark Rothko
Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.
— Zig Ziglar
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
— Mark Rothko
Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.
— Stephen Harper
Mark Rothko once wrote, "Silence is so accurate." We
— Nicholas Tanek