My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTThere is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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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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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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 art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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