Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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 should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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