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Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.

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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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