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.
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 REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTNow almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.
AD REINHARDTI tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDTArt is not the spiritual side of business.
AD REINHARDTIt 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 REINHARDTI want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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 REINHARDTThe 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 REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTArt is too serious to be taken seriously.
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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDT