Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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