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
AD REINHARDTI want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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