The more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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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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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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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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