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Ad Reinhardt Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.



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The more an artist works the more there is to do.



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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.

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.

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.



Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.



The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.



Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.



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.

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.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.





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