My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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.
AD REINHARDTMaking it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDTThe 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.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTI 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 REINHARDTThe artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDTPainting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTAs for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDTI want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
AD REINHARDTIt 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.
AD REINHARDTThe 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.
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.
AD REINHARDT