The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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