Mark Rothko
Buckley (2010) quotes Rothko, who stated, “I'm not interested in relationships of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on—and the fact that lots of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate these basic human emotions”.
Mark Rothko, 1956, “Untitled (Red)”
Bibliography
Buckley, Peter J. 2010. “Mark Rothko, 1903-1970.” American Journal of Psychiatry 167 (11): 1304–4. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.10050701.
Rothko, Mark. 1956. "Untitled (Red)". Image. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/work-of-the-week-untitled-red-1956/.