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Ad Reinhardt
19 quotes
“What greater challenge today.. ..to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space? (quote in 1943, discussing the art of Piet Mondrian)”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Ad Reinhardt in: Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990.
“An abstract painting will react to you if you react to it. You get from it what you bring to it. It will meet you half way but no further. It is alive if you are. It represents something and so do you. YOU, SIR, ARE A SPACE, TOO.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Quote from the six-page comic How to Look at Art, in Arts & Architecture, January 1947.
“It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana 1952, p. 226
“And today many artists like myself refuse to be involved in some ideas. In painting – for me – no fooling-the-eye, no window-hole-in-the wall, no illusions, no representations, no associations, no distortions, no paint-caricaturing, no dream pictures of dripping, no delirium trimmings, no sadism or slashing, no therapy, no kicking-the-effigy, no clowning, no acrobatics, no heroics, no self-pity, no guilt.. ..no abstraction of everything, no nonsense, no involvements, no confusing painting with everything that is no painting.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana 1952, p. 226-227
“'Study the old masters. Look at nature. Watch out for armpits'. [in 1956, Reinhardt is quoting Paul Cézanne here freely]”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 150
“My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. [1957, reacting on a remark of Picasso ]”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 151
“Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. [1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell ]”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 152
“The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Ad Reinhardt (1963); as cited in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), "Art after Philosophy
“There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?'”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 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.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one question, the one principle, the one crisis in art of the twentieth century centers in the uncompromising 'purity' of art, and in the consciousness that art comes from art only, not from anything else.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one place for art-as-art is the museum of fine art. The reason of the museum or fine art is the preservation of ancient and modern art that cannot be made again and that does not have to be done again. A museum of fine art should exclude everything but fine art, and be separate of museums of ethnology, geology, archaeology, history.. .Any disturbance of a true museum's soundlessness, timelessness, airlessness, and lifelessness is a disrespect.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one thing to say about art and life is that art is art and life is life, that art is not life and life is not art. A 'slice-of-life' art is no better or worse than a 'slice-of-art' life. Fine art is not a 'means of making a living' or a 'way of living a life', and a artist who dedicates his life to his art or his art to his life burdens his art with his life and his life with his art. Art that is a matter of life and death is neither fine nor free.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art of 'figuring' or 'picturing' is not a fine art. An artist who is lobbying as a 'creature of circumstances' or log rolling as a 'victim of fate' is not a fine master artist. No one ever forces an artist to be pure.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one art that is abstract and pure enough to have the one problem and possibility, in our time and timelessness, of the 'one single grand original problem' is pure abstract painting. Abstract painting is not just another school or movement or style but the first truly unmannered and untrammeled and un-entangled, styleless, universal painting. No other art or painting is detached or empty or immaterial enough.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“vagueness is a 'romantic' value.. ..an emphasis on geometry is an emphasis on the 'known', on order and knowledge.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Ad Reinhardt in: Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 107
“The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Gerhard Richter, Doubt and belief in painting, Robert Storr, MOMA, New York, 2003, p. 32 note 1.