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.
AD REINHARDTThere 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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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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 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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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