Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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As 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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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