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.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea… The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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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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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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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