Art is not the spiritual side of business.
AD REINHARDTThe artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that ‘first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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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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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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