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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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