We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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 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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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