Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad...
A source page for quotes linked to Ad Reinhardt.
“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”
“I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.”
“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”
“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”
“The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.”
“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
“The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.”
“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”
“Art is art. Everything else is everything else.”
“The more an artist works the more there is to do.”
“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”