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.
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.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
-
-
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDT -
The 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 REINHARDT -
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDT -
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDT -
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
AD REINHARDT -
So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDT -
As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
AD REINHARDT -
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.
AD REINHARDT -
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
AD REINHARDT -
If 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 REINHARDT -
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDT -
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD REINHARDT -
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.
AD REINHARDT -
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
AD REINHARDT -
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
AD REINHARDT