Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
About Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardtwas an abstract painter and Art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades. As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting.
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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.
American painter and printmaker
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
American painter and printmaker
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
American painter and printmaker
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
American painter and printmaker
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.
American painter and printmaker
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.
American painter and printmaker
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.
American painter and printmaker
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
American painter and printmaker