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.
AD REINHARDTI 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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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 want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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