Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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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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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
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It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that ‘first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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That’s an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes.
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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