The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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