The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Mark RothkoThe artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.
Mark RothkoThere is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
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 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