--Ad Reinhart

It's been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting's meanings by looking not only at what painters do but at what they refuse to do.

--Jackson Pollock

"I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

--Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko

"To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

--Harold Rosenberg

"At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act... What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event."