Mark Rothko Quotes

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

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 academicism.