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.
AD REINHARDTMy 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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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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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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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