As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
AD REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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