The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Mark RothkoThere is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
Mark RothkoIf our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.
Mark Rothko