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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Art Serious Seriously Taken Too

Keywords: Abhor


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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Art Else Everything Everything Else

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

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Anything Artist Bad Does Good Good Idea He Idea Need Only Thinks

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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Academic Marketplace Oppose Tried I Tried

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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.

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Almost Artist Connected Dozen Even Every Fact Idea Interesting Living Majority Making Making A Living Making Money Money Museum New New York Now Only Outside Painters Paintings School Selling Some Take Two York You

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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.

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Art Because Best Brooklyn Country Department Departments Everywhere Happened Interesting Job Might Now Point Reflects University Worst

Keywords: Abhor


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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.

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Art Art History Back Because Came Chinese Classes Department Facilities History Indian Japanese Lot Much Now Our Painting Partly Still Taught Worst

Keywords: Abhor


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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.

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Came Know Painting Place Send Some Someplace Student Study Suggest Up Want Wanted Where You

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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

~Ad Reinhardt

Topics: Back Back Up Bump Look Painting Sculpture Something Up You

Keywords: Abhor


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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: December 24th, 1913

Died: August 30th, 1967

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