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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature 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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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