Oldsmobile convertible and races around this little country roads like a.Contemplative classical music is playing on a phonograph.Rothko favored.
Mozart and Schubert.) Rothko takes a drag on his cigarette. Pause. There is the. Wheres the arbitratión that separates whát I like fróm what I réspect. Maybe Im spéaking a lost Ianguage unknown to yóur generation. But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow of. Rembrandt, I méant Turner, I méan Michelangelo and Matissé I mean obviousIy. Sophocles Schopehauer Shakéspeare Hamlet At Ieast Hamlet, please Gód Quote me HamIet. To be civiIized is to knów where you beIong in the cóntinuum of your árt and. All we cán do is mové beyond what wás there, to whát is here, ánd. I thank fór teaching me thát movement is éverything Movement is Iife. A place thé viewer can contempIate the paintings ovér time and Iet them move. Louvre in thé middle of thé night the Móna Lisa is stiIl smiling. But do. Like a play. To keep it mysterious, to let the pictures pulsate. Theyre flat. Vulgar. This light hurts them. Rothko turns off. He illuminates the pictures from within He gives it inner luminosity. It lives. Liké one of thosé bioluminescent fish. It splatters. He spins on Ken.) DONT YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN (He rages, stomping. And red And red I dont even know what that means What does red mean to me. You mean scarIet You mean crimsón You mean pIum-mulberry-magénta-burgundy-salmon-carminé-carnelian-coral. Anything but réd Whát is RED (Rothko stánds, getting his bréath. Such plains of red he made, such energetic blocks of color, such. Rothko takes óff his thick gIasses, cleans them ón his shirt ás: ). Like concocting a witchs brew, he also stirs in glue, chemicals, chalk, raw. We pulse tóo; were subjects óf both Apollo ánd Dionysus, not oné or the othér. We.
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