Mark Rothko, No. 3/No. 13, 1949. MoMA, New York, NY.

"The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point."

 (Mark Rothko, pseudonimo di Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz; Daugavpils, 25 settembre 1903 – New York, 25 febbraio 1970)