Ad Reinhardt quotes - page 2

Ad Reinhardt was an American abstract painter, best known for his "black paintings" and his role in the development of minimal art. His work explored the boundaries between painting and pure abstraction, influencing generations of artists. He is remembered as a pioneer in both abstract expressionism and conceptual art. Here are 30 of his quotes:

Study the old masters. Look at nature. Watch out for armpits.

Ad Reinhardt

What greater challenge today.... to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space?

Ad Reinhardt

Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal.

Ad Reinhardt

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