Mark Rothko on Spiritual Art

in art •  7 years ago 

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“I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on,” Rothko said in 1957. “The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.”

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