The only and one way to say ...

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.
 Ad Reinhardt

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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.
 Ad Reinhardt
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 more 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
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
 Ad Reinhardt
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.
 Ad Reinhardt