The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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