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.
AD REINHARDTThe 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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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Art 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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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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