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 tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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 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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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