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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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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 should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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 want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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