The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDTThe 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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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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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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