I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTI tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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 REINHARDTAs for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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 REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
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 REINHARDTArt is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDTWe all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
AD REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTThe only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
AD REINHARDTThere 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