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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 artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as 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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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