Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDTI want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDTThe artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTI tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD REINHARDTPainting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
AD REINHARDTArt is not the spiritual side of business.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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.
AD REINHARDTNow 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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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 REINHARDTThat’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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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