I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDTIt 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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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 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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
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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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