Mark Rothko

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I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.
- Mark Rothko
Collection: People
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It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
- Mark Rothko
Collection: Breathing
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The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.
- Mark Rothko
Collection: Want
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I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.
- Mark Rothko
Collection: Form