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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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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