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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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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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 want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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