Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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 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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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The 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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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 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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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