Mark Rothko

The sublime is now or never.

I seek to express the anguish of our time.

Color is the skin of the world.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

I am not interested in color theory; I am interested in emotion.

The picture should have its own life.

Humanity is the measure of all things.

I paint to communicate the incommunicable.

The void is full of meaning.

My work is a confession.

Art must be religious.

I destroy my paintings to save them.

The light within is the light without.

To be an artist is to believe what others do not.

My colors are my words.

The tragedy of man is in his isolation.

Painting is a state of being.

I seek the eternal in the temporal.

Emotion is the source of all art.

The canvas is my confessional.