Mark Rothko Quote

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.


p. 173 : working notes, undated - after 1970 / posthumous - 'Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990


I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors...

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors...

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors...

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors...