"[the first ingredient of his work]... is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality."
— Mark Rothko

January 1, 1970

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Added on April 10, 2026
Unverified quote
0 likes
Jews from the United StatesPrintmakersImmigrants to the United StatesPainters from the United StatesPeople from Latvia
Original Language: English

Sources

Quote from Rothko's lecture (1958) at the Pratt Institute; as cited in Mark Rothko, a biography, James E. B. Breslin, University of Chicago Press (1993), p. 28