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.
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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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