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.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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 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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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