Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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 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.
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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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