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

 

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


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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

Silence is so accurate.

Mark Rothko

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

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

Mark Rothko

From him I got my love for music, and for many years I was the classical music critic for magazines that have since folded, such as Musical America and High Fidelity. During the last year of his life, I would come to the studio, and he would arrange a corner for me with a canvas and paints. I don't think that I saw him paint. He didn't allow anyone to watch him. That was his own private affair.

Mark Rothko