My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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 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 art. Everything else is everything else.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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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 should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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