
— Mark Rothko russisch-amerikanischer Maler 1903 - 1970
Weltgeschichte der Kunst, München 1983; über Abitur-Wissen Kunst, Stark, 1992
("I am not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else. [...] I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on - [...]" - Selden Rodman: Conversations with Artists. New York Devin-Adair 1957. p. 93. Nachdruck in: Writings on Art - Mark Rothko (2006), edited by Miguel López-Remiro p. 119 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=ZdYLk3m2TN4C&pg=PA119