I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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