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.
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.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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