Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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