We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
AD REINHARDTMy paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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 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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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.
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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 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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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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