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.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously. - Ad Reinhardt
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
- Ad Reinhardt
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
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.
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 busin… - Ad Reinhardt
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 busin…
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. - Ad Reinhardt
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. - Ad Reinhardt
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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 col… - Ad Reinhardt
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 col…
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. - Ad Reinhardt
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. - Ad Reinhardt
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. - Ad Reinhardt
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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