Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
Mark RothkoAnd last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
Mark RothkoIf you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
Mark RothkoWe assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Mark RothkoI use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.
Mark Rothko