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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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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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