Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDTIf 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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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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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 one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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