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 only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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 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 REINHARDTArt is too serious to be taken seriously.
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 REINHARDTI 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.
AD REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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 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 REINHARDTNow 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 REINHARDTAs for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
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