Art is not the spiritual side of business.
AD REINHARDT
AD REINHARDT
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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.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt 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
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt 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 ReinhardtAd Reinhardt I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt 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.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt
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