Quotes by Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt

American abstract painter

Lived from: 1913 - 1967

Category: Artists

Born: 24 december 1913 Died: 30 august 1967

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  • Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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  • 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.
    Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
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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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  • The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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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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  • 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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Questions and Answers

What are the most famous quotes from Ad Reinhardt?

The two most famous quotes from Ad Reinhardt are:

  • "Art is Art. Everything else is everything else."
  • "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."

When did Ad Reinhardt live?

Ad Reinhardt was born in 1913 and died in the year 1967.