The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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 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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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