My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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