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.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
-
-
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDT -
Art is not the spiritual side of business.
AD REINHARDT -
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDT -
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDT -
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 REINHARDT -
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 REINHARDT -
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.
AD REINHARDT -
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDT -
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
AD REINHARDT -
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.
AD REINHARDT -
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 REINHARDT -
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
AD REINHARDT -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDT -
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.
AD REINHARDT -
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDT