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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

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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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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature 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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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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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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