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 REINHARDTThe 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 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 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 REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDTWe all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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 REINHARDTI tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTThe only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
AD REINHARDTAs 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 REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
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 REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDTMaking it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDT