So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
AD REINHARDTAs 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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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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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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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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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 tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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