"The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them." - Mark Rothko

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I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions.

Source note: Documented interview statement

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A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Source note: Commonly cited

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If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

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