.. it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes... But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it. [his quote in 1959, looking back to the 1930's]. (Mark Rothko)

.. it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes... But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it. [his quote in 1959, looking back to the 1930's].

Mark Rothko

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