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.
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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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 want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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