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.
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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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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 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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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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 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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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