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.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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.
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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea… The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
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