The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.

Mark Rothko

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Topic

Artist and audience Art and religion Art

Speaker

Mark Rothko

Source

Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

United States

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Citation

Rothko, Mark. Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman. Capricorn Books, 1961. Originally stated in an interview with Selden Rodman in 1957.

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Susan Sontag

Freak Show

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Topic
Modern art Power of art Art

Author

Susan Sontag
Source
Freak Show The New York Review of Books
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.