Ad Reinhardt Quotes
- Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
- The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
- As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
- My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
- 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…
- 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.
- Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
- The more an artist works the more there is to do.
- 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.…
- Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
- We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
- Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
- 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…
- 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…
- Art is not the spiritual side of business.
- 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…
- 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…
- I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
- I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
- My paintings are the last paintings one can make.