Ad Reinhardt Artist Quotations

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.

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

I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.

I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

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.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.