We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
AD REINHARDTThat’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 as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature 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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