My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
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The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more
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The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
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Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you’d want to suggest someplace, but there’s no place. I wouldn’t know where to send a student to study.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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