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.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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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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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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