I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
More Quotes by Ad Reinhardt
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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.
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.