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.
AD REINHARDTArt is art. Everything else is everything else.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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 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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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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