My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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 REINHARDTArt is not the spiritual side of business.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDTI tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTArt is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDTThat’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 REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDTAs for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTPainting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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 art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDT