My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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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 for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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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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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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