Lorna Roberts

“You should understand that I did not want you to read a painting. I/ wanted you to bathe in it before words domesticated the experience,/ and you turned to such stand-bys as "illumination" and "transcendent"/ to describe what happened to you. Painting should not be sentenced to/ sentences.”
― John Yau, Further Adventures in Monochrome

“Silence is so accurate”
― Mark Rothko

“the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.”
― Mark Rothko, The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
― Milan Kundera