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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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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 want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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