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
AD REINHARDTThe artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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 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 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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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