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Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. - Mark Rothko Quotes

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted. - Mark Rothko Quotes

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

American Artist

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. - Mark Rothko Quotes

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

American Artist

I have on occasion successfully dealt with this problem by tending to crowd the show rather than making it spare. - Mark Rothko Quotes

I have on occasion successfully dealt with this problem by tending to crowd the show rather than making it spare.

Crowd

The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life. - Mark Rothko Quotes

The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.

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 Quotes

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

American Artist Art

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. - Mark Rothko Quotes

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

American Artist Meaning

Silence is so accurate. - Mark Rothko Quotes

Silence is so accurate.

American Artist Silence

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. - Mark Rothko Quotes

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

American Artist Art

Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls. - Mark Rothko Quotes

Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls.

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