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.
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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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 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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes.
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There 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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