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.
AD REINHARDTAs for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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 tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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