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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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 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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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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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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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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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