I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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