An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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 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 not the spiritual side of business.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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