The art of 'figuring' or 'picturing' is not a fine art. An … - Ad Reinhardt

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The art of 'figuring' or 'picturing' is not a fine art. An artist who is lobbying as a 'creature of circumstances' or log rolling as a 'victim of fate' is not a fine master artist. No one ever forces an artist to be pure.

Ad Reinhardt

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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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The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.

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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 ]

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