Ad Reinhardt Quotes

• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Seriously

• 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.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Taught, Facilities

• 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.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Living

• Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Everything

• 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.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Student, Painting, Study

• I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tried, Academic, Oppose

• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thinks, Idea

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Interesting, Best

Ad Reinhardt (8)

Birth:	24th December, 1913
Death:	30th August, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter

About

Adolph Frederick Reinhardt was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism. He was also a founding member of the Artist's Club. He wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual, minimal art and monochrome painting. Most famous for his "black" or "ultimate" paintings, he claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint. He believed in a philosophy of art he called Art-as-Art and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art and against what he described as "the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists"

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