I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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 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 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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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 paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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