If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used

Image, If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. …(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.

—Mark Rothko

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Image, My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

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Image, Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching

Image, Silence is so accurate.

Image, The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my

Image, There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One

Image, I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

Image, I will say without reservations that from my point of view there

Image, I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that

Image, You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You

Image, A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of

Image, I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color

Image, I’m not an abstractionist… I’m not interested in relationships of colour or

Image, Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of

Image, (I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the

Image, And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because

Image, The picture must be… a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of

Image, Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like

Image, We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for

Image, It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not

Image, A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of

Image, The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward

Image, The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to

Image, I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones

Image, Without monsters and Gods, art cannot enact a drama.

Image, While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone

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

Image, It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.