Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTNow 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 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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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