Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDTThe 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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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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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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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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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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