The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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 want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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