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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

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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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Art Chinese Class Especially History Painting People Person
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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Art Artist Idea Museums Situation Talk University
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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Artist Ask Call Name Nobody Ourselves
So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Department Everything Facility Now Worst
As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Design Feeling Hell Picture Software Thousand Word
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 Artist Connected Country Exhibition Museum Outside Painting School
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Anything Artist Good Idea Need Thinking
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Appearance Art Artist Bondage Emancipate Forever
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art Serious Seriously Taken
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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Abstract Art Fifty Nothing Present Year
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Darkness Evil Force Light Painting Peace Power
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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Painting Someplace Student Study Suggest Want
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Art Artist Burden Creative Dedicate Life
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Academic Desire Marketplace Opposite Tried Try Wish
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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Art Business Idea Selling Spectacle Themselves Ugliest
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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Abstract Empire Happen Purer Say Speaking Way What

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