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. — 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 the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living… — 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
