Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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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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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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