Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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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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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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 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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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