I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTI 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 as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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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 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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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 art. Everything else is everything else.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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