The more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDTOnly a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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 not the spiritual side of business.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you’d want to suggest someplace, but there’s no place. I wouldn’t know where to send a student to study.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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That’s an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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