The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature 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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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