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.
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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
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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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature 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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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