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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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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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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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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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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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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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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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