My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that ‘first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
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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 tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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