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.
AD REINHARDTMaking 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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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 art. Everything else is everything else.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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 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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