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.
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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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 tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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 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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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 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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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