Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko,\ (25 September 1903 – 25 February 1970) born Marcus Rothkowitz, was a Latvian-born American painter sometimes classified as an Abstract Expressionist.
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- A painting is not about an experience.It is an experience.
- Its a risky business to send a picture out into the world.
- Only that subject matter is valid which is tragic .
- I quarrel with surrealists and abstract art only as one quarrels with his father and mother.
- I am not an abstractionist,I am not interested in the relationship of colour as form..only in expressing basic human emotions.
- I paint very large pictures because I want to create a state of intimacy.A large picture is an immediate transaction.It takes you into it.
- There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
- The people who weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.
