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.
AD REINHARDTThe more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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 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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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
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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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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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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