"I wanted to be soft like Rothko and ruthless like Ad Reinhardt."
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Jenny Holzer Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon (2016) p 172
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Ad Reinhardt
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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