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.
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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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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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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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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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