“vagueness is a 'romantic' value.... an emphasis on geometry is an emphasis on the 'known', on order and knowledge.”

—  Ad Reinhardt

Quote of Ad Reinhardt in: Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 107
after 1967 - posthumous

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