It was not that the figure had been removed, not that the figures had been swept away, but the symbols for the figures, and in turn the shapes in the later canvases were substitutes for the figures.... these new shapes say.... what the symbols said. [Rothko, explaining Seitz his new way of painting during the mid-1940s]. (Mark Rothko)

It was not that the figure had been removed, not that the figures had been swept away, but the symbols for the figures, and in turn the shapes in the later canvases were substitutes for the figures.... these new shapes say.... what the symbols said. [Rothko, explaining Seitz his new way of painting during the mid-1940s].

Mark Rothko

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