So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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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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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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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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 not the spiritual side of business.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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