There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
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I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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