My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTThat’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 not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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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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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 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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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