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Mark Rothko Quotes: (I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
         

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.


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You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.



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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.





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