The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
AD REINHARDTThere 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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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 not the spiritual side of business.
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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 too serious to be taken seriously.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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