The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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