The more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDTArt is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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.
AD REINHARDTThat’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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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.
AD REINHARDTThe 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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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.
AD REINHARDTNow 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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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDTThe artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as 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.
AD REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTI 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.
AD REINHARDTI 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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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