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.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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 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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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