I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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 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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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 art. Everything else is everything else.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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