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.
AD REINHARDTI 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.
More Ad Reinhardt Quotes
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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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The 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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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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 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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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