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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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