The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
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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 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 not the spiritual side of business.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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 only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
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