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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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 not the spiritual side of business.
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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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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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