We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Mark RothkoWe favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
Mark RothkoA picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer
Mark RothkoWe 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 pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.
Mark Rothko