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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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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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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 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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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