The one question, the one principle, the one crisis in art of the twentieth century centers in the uncompromising 'purity' of art, and in the conscio… - Ad Reinhardt

The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.

An abstract painting will react to you if you react to it. You get from it what you bring to it. It will meet you half way but no further. It is alive if you are. It represents something and so do you. YOU, SIR, ARE A SPACE, TOO.

The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.