"Art is too serious to be taken seriously."

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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press

Ad Reinhardt

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“Today is the best day I could ever have.”
“Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.”
“I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.”
“The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.”
“The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.”
“I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.”
“I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.”
“The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.”

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