Mark Rothko Quotes

Mark Rothko — American Artist born on September 25, 1903, died on February 25, 1970

Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rotkovich, was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist. With Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he is one of the most famous postwar American artists... (wikipedia)

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

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

Silence is so accurate.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

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