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.
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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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 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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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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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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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 not the spiritual side of business.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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