Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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.
The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.
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.
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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.
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.
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
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.
There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.
There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.
There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.
I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.
They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.
Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.
There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.
The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.
Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.
When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart
The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.
Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones
Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.
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.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
I was not boy crazy. Really, I wasn't. But I was lonely, I guess.
The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.
My brother, he says. My brother is dead."And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.
