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.
AD REINHARDTThe artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
-
-
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 REINHARDT -
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDT -
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD 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 REINHARDT -
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 REINHARDT -
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.
AD REINHARDT -
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDT -
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDT -
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.
AD REINHARDT -
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDT -
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDT -
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDT -
Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDT -
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDT -
So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDT