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 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. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has… — 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
