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.
AD REINHARDTIf 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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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 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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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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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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