An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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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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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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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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 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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