We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back.… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
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… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
