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.
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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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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 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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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