Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD REINHARDTAs for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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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 too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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.
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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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.
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