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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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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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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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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