Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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