Courses
“The function of art is therefore to make a generalization within the limits of its category.” (Mark Rothko, The Artist’s Reality, p24)
“Artists’ pigments, like printers’ inks, have many uses apart from the creation of art.” (Rothko p19)
“From the viewpoint of mind and purpose, no one resembles the artist less than those others who share his devices. The art of the advertising artist can be understood only by the study of the mind of the salesman.” (Rothko p20)
“We are here neither to moralize nor to segregate art into levels of value. Each to his own work and may he do it well, and derive the rewards which he prizes most…
But we must look elsewhere if we are to find analogies in human action to enlighten us concerning the activities of the artist. It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair.” (Rothko p21)