The more an artist works the more there is to do.
AD REINHARDTThe 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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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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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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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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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you’d want to suggest someplace, but there’s no place. I wouldn’t know where to send a student to study.
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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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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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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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