An abstract painting will react to you if you react to it. … - Ad Reinhardt

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An abstract painting will react to you if you react to it. You get from it what you bring to it. It will meet you half way but no further. It is alive if you are. It represents something and so do you. YOU, SIR, ARE A SPACE, TOO.

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Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt ("Ad" Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was a painter, writer, and pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. He was also a critic of abstract expressionism.

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Alternative Names: Adolph Frederick Reinhardt • Adolph Frederick. Reinhardt • Adolph F. Reinhardt • Adolph Dietmar Friedrich Reinhardt • Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt • Ad F. Reinhardt • Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt

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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. [1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell ]

The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.

'Study the old masters. Look at nature. Watch out for armpits'. [in 1956, Reinhardt is quoting Paul Cézanne here freely]

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