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Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

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Birthday September 25, 1903

Birthplace Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Death February 25, 1970

Manner of Death Suicide, Suicide

Educated At Lincoln High School, Art Students League Of New York, Yale University, Lincoln High School, Art Students League Of New York, Yale University

Nationality United States Of America, United States Of America

Occupations Painter, University Teacher, Painter, University Teacher

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The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees.

— Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko: A Biography

Art Painting Vision Belief

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To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko, via Wikiquote

Art Taking Risks Being An Artist

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Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

— Mark Rothko, Jonathan Jones: Mark Rothko on the way the art world was/is going

Ideology Belief Searching deire Silence Growth

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Silence is so accurate.

— Mark Rothko, Silence is so Accurate

Silence Accuracy Answer

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We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world... If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictorial equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.

— Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko: A Biography

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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 academism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. We assert that only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko, A Letter from Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb to the Art Editor of the New York Times

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Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

— Elaine de Kooning, Oral history interview with Elaine de Kooning, 1981 August 27

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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

— Pablo Picasso, via Wikiquote

Art Understanding Art Interpretation

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First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

— Francisco Goya, Unknown

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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

— Robert Rauschenberg, Rauschenberg, art and life

Art Perspective Painting

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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

— John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters

Art excellence Intensity

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Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Notebooks

Poetry Moonlight Sunlight Art Painting

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Art is the only way to ascend to God, doing what our divine Master did, create.

— Paul Gauguin, giving advice to his good friend Émile Schuffenecker

Art Painting Religion Impressionism Creativity

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The difference between life and art is art is more bearable.

— Charles Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, American Author

Art Life Healing expression

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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

— Max Planck, Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People

Science Art Creativity Imagination

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The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso, Words of Art: Inspiring Quotes from the Masters

Art World Sense Make Sense paintings connotation Representation

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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

— Man Ray, Man Ray: Writings on Art

Create Creativity Art Reproduce Human Nature

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Art is a line around your thoughts.

— Gustav Klimt, via Tumblr

Art Thoughts Creativity

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.

— Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part II, Walking the Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch Land

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When we come to creative art, to the living word of a man delivering a message to his own time, it is clear that any attempt to alter this later on is simply fraud and forgery.

— George Bernard Shaw, Wikiquote.org: George Bernard Shaw

Creative Art Living Word deliver message Time Fraud forgery

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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

— Georgia O’Keeffe, via www.goodreads.com

Creativity Art Courage

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

— Walt Whitman, Poems by Walt Whitman

Art beauty glory Simplicity Simple creating

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Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation.

— Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication

Lyrics Creativity Art Writing Drugs Self Destruction Creative Destruction

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There are images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch

Photography Art beauty Aesthetics Quote of the Moment Searching for the Ideal Idealism

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Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.

— Dorothea Tanning, Salon Interview Surrealist Dorothea Tanning

Art Sanity purpose Passion Life Painting

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