Art is not the spiritual side of business.
AD REINHARDTI 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.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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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 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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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