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 REINHARDTArt is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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 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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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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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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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 not the spiritual side of business.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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 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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