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.
AD REINHARDTSo now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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