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.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTArt is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDTArt is not the spiritual side of business.
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.
AD REINHARDTPainting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD REINHARDTIf 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 REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTAs 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 REINHARDTI want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
AD REINHARDTMaking it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDTI tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDT