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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

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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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Artist Ask Call Name Nobody Ourselves
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Consuming Last Make One Painting Time
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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Abstract Art Fifty Nothing Present Year
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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Dozen Fact Idea Interesting Making Money Painting Selling Take
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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Art Artist Idea Museums Situation Talk University
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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Artist Color Eliminate Interesting Much Pretty Symbolic
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art Avant-Garde Everything Simplify
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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Art Creative First Idea Painter Painting Right Thinking
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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Art Country Department Happened Job Reflect University
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art Serious Seriously Taken
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Anything Artist Good Idea Need Thinking
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you’d want to suggest someplace, but there’s no place. I wouldn’t know where to send a student to study.
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Painting Someplace Student Study Suggest Want
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Appearance Art Artist Bondage Emancipate Forever
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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Abstract Abstraction Art Artist Only Way
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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