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.
AD REINHARDTWe all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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 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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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