The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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