Ad Reinhardt

I am very skeptical about most of what people say pictures mean or paintings mean. I lean very much toward, way over toward a guy like Ad Reinhart, although I think he exaggerated, when he said pictures don’t mean anything. I have a kind of feeling that a work of art is something that you can never put your finger on in terms of meaning. I think that’s its essential quality.

(Siskind in audiotaped interview with Don Anderson, Louisville, Kentucky, April 29, 1970, Oral History Center, University Archives and Records Center, University of Louisville.)