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.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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 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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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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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 want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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