Quotes by Ad Reinhardt - Page 1

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art
Smile
Artist
Serious
Taken
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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Art
Business
Spiritual
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art
Avant Garde
Simplify
Everything Else Everything Else
Else
Everything Else
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Lasts
Painting
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Academic
Marketplace
Opposites
Oppose
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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Artist
Mature
Painting
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Artist
Businessman
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As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Design
Hell
Software
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Painting
Sculpture
Back
Back Up
Bump
Look
Something
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Black
Ideas
Want
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Artist
Ideas
Thinking
Good Bad Anything
Good Idea
Thinks
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Appearance
Artist
Forever
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The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
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Abstract
Abstraction
Way
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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Art
Artist
Burden
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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
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Artist
Asks
Names
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Darkness
Evil
Light
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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.
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Black
Dull
Shadow
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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.
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Artist
Color
Interesting
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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.
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Art
Ideas
Museums
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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.
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Firsts
Painting
Thinking
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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.
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Art
Business
Ideas
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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 where to send a student to study.
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Painting
Students
Study
Want
Student
Send
Someplace
Suggest
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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.
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Art
Jobs
Brooklyn
Country
Department
University
Worst
Everywhere
Reflects
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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 the worst facilities.
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Art
Art History
Chinese
Class
Department
Indian
Painting
Classes
Facilities
Japanese
Partly
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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 selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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New York
Artist
Connected
Dozen
Majority
Making A Living
School
Selling
Museum
Painters
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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.
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Art
Fifty
Years
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