Image by kamikazecactus via Flickr “I paint very large pictures. I realise that historically the function of painting large pictures is something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them however – I think it applies to other painters I know – is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However, you paint the larger picture you are in it. It isn’t something you command.” – Mark Rothko, Tate Gallery catalogue, 1987.
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