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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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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 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.
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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 as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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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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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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