I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
AD REINHARDTMy painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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 art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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