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Top 25 Ad Reinhardt Quotes (2025 Update)

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “My paintings are the last paintings one can make.”

1. “My paintings are the last paintings one can make.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.”

2. “There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”

3. “As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “Art is art. Everything else is everything else.”

4. “Art is art. Everything else is everything else.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.”

5. “I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.”

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

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Ad Reinhardt Quote: “An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”

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

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Ad Reinhardt Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “The eye is a menace to clear sight.”

9. “The eye is a menace to clear sight.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

10. “The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

11. “Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

13. “Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.”

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

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

15. “Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.”

16. “We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “The more an artist works the more there is to do.”

19. “The more an artist works the more there is to do.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.”

20. “I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”

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

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Ad Reinhardt Quote: “My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.”

25. “My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.”

— Ad Reinhardt

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