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.
AD REINHARDTI want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I 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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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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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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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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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