From Darkness Visible:
"Ed Rinehart [sic] made a fortune painting canvases that were just one solid color. He had his black period in which the canvas was totally black. And then he had a blue period in which he was painting the canvas blue."
— Martin Gardner interview in AMS Notices, June/July 2005
From Art History:
"Art history was very personal through the eyes of Ad Reinhardt."
— Robert Morris,
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
From The Edge of Eternity:
Christopher Fry's obituary
in The New York Times—
"His plays radiated an optimistic faith in God and humanity, evoking, in his words, 'a world in which we are poised on the edge of eternity, a world which has deeps and shadows of mystery, and God is anything but a sleeping partner.' He said he wrote his plays in poetry because that was 'the language in which man expresses his own amazement' at the complexity both of himself and of a reality which, beneath the surface, was 'wildly, perilously, inexplicably fantastic.'"
Adapted from cover of
German edition of Cold Mountain