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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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 should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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