36 Quotes by Ad Reinhardt

The eye is a menace to clear sight.

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

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.

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

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.

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