I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDT- So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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- black
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
AD REINHARDTAs for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD REINHARDTPainting cannot be the only activity of a mature 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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