My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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I 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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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 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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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