Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
AD REINHARDTMaking 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 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 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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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