Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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 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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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 as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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