Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea… The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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 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 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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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