I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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There 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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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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 painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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