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.
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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes.
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