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.
AD REINHARDTI want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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