Ad Reinhardt quotes
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“Art is art. Everything else is everything else.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Marlborough Gallery (1970). “Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967”
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“The more an artist works the more there is to do.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press
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“The 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 ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult
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“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press
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“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press
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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.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
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“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.”
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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.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.25, Univ of California Press
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“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. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.”
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“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”
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“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. That'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 ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press
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“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press
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“The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.”
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“My paintings are the last paintings one can make.”
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“I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.”
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“I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.”
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“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 ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult
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“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”
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“My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult
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“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, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : "Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt".
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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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“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 ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
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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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“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press
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“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”
-- Ad Reinhardt
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