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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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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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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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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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