"I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million. I mean, I think $14 million is a pretty reasonable sum of money for a good Rothko painting. What's disturbing about this present moment is that these prices have been so out of control."
Source : Thomas Gray, Thomas PARK (F.S.A.) (1808). “The poetical works of Thomas Gray, etc. With a separate titlepage bearing the imprint of John Sharpe, London, dated 1805”, p.12