My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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 as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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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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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