My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTIf 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.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
-
-
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDT -
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDT -
So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDT -
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDT -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDT -
Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDT -
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 REINHARDT -
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
AD REINHARDT -
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDT -
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 REINHARDT -
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
AD REINHARDT -
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDT -
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.
AD REINHARDT -
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDT -
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDT







