The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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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