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 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.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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 paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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