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 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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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