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Ad Reinhardt Art Quotes - (6 quotes)

Ad Reinhardt - From the Art category:

Art is art. Everything else is everything else. (Ad Reinhardt)

Ad Reinhardt - From the Art category:

Art is too serious to be taken seriously. (Ad Reinhardt)

Ad Reinhardt - From the Artists category:

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

Ad Reinhardt - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:

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 - From the Business category:

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist. (Ad Reinhardt)

Ad Reinhardt - From the Profession category:

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)

Editor: Robert Genn

Consultants: Sara Genn, Richard Thompson
Technical Support and Presentation: Andrew Niculescu

Associate Editors:
Scott Altman, Bonnie Austin, Karen Austin, Michele Becker, Joe Blodgett, Norman Brown, Alyce Bryson, Leanne Cadden, Penny Duane, Max Elliot, Derek Franklin, Mardy Grothe, Harry Hartley, Sue Holland, Shawn Jackson, Sue Legault, Tammy McManus, Eric Mewhinney, Bruce Miller, Laura Parrish, Andrea Pratt, Dan Roberts, Shirley Rochon, Gilbert Roy, John Sherlock, Victor Wong,

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