The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. Ad Reinhardt More Quotes by Ad Reinhardt More Quotes From Ad Reinhardt Art is art. Everything else is everything else. Ad Reinhardt simplify avant-garde art The more an artist works the more there is to do. Ad Reinhardt artist 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 Reinhardt business ideas art Art is too serious to be taken seriously. Ad Reinhardt serious taken art 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 Reinhardt color artist interesting 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 Reinhardt fifty years art An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. Ad Reinhardt burden artist art Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. Ad Reinhardt artist ideas thinking 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 Reinhardt black shadow dull Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. Ad Reinhardt painting mature artist As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. Ad Reinhardt hell software design The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance. Ad Reinhardt artist appearance forever My paintings are the last paintings one can make. Ad Reinhardt painting lasts 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 museums ideas art 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. Ad Reinhardt painting firsts thinking We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. Ad Reinhardt asks artist names My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. Ad Reinhardt light darkness evil The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist. Ad Reinhardt businessman artist I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. Ad Reinhardt black want ideas 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 jobs country art
