I 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.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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