My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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 too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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.
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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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 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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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