Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDTNow 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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as 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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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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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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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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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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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