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.
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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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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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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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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you’d want to suggest someplace, but there’s no place. I wouldn’t know where to send a student to study.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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