Top 34 Ad Reinhardt Quotes
#1. Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
Eric Kandel
#2. The more an artist works the more there is to do.
Ad Reinhardt
#3. This isn't about validation, this is about having someone's hand to hold when I'm walking through the creepy forest. I really thought of that tonight. Life is sometimes one great big creepy forest, and as much as I love you, we are both getting to the age where each other just isn't enough.
Davee Jones
#4. When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#5. An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
Ad Reinhardt
#7. Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Ad Reinhardt
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
Ad Reinhardt
#14. We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
Ad Reinhardt
#15. Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
Ad Reinhardt
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
Brian Clough
#20. I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Ad Reinhardt
#21. We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
Ethel Waters
#22. I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
Ad Reinhardt
#23. [The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?
Gilles Peress
#24. The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
Ad Reinhardt
#25. My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
Ad Reinhardt
#26. Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
Ad Reinhardt
#27. Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.
Robert Redford
#28. The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
Ad Reinhardt
#29. 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
#30. Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
#31. School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.
John Taylor Gatto
#32. I noticed nearly everyone had a cup of Aunt Jewel's punch. It was the weirdest thing to me how everyone openly acknowledged that it was terrible, but kept drinking it anyway. Manners in action, I guess.
Rachel Hawkins
#33. As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt
#34. I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
William Banting
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