The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
AD REINHARDTThe only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
AD REINHARDTArt is not the spiritual side of business.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDTMaking it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDTI tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTArt is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTWe all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTThe 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
AD REINHARDTAs for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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 REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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 want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
AD REINHARDTPainting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD REINHARDT