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 REINHARDTI want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature 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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