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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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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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Dozen Fact Idea Interesting Making Money Painting Selling Take
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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Artist Color Eliminate Interesting Much Pretty Symbolic
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 Creative First Idea Painter Painting Right Thinking
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Appearance Art Artist Bondage Emancipate Forever
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Consuming Last Make One Painting Time
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
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
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
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
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art Artist Businessman Painting Uglier
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
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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Black Conventionality Emphasize Idea Intellectuality Want
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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Art Country Department Happened Job Reflect University
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 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

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