Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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