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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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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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 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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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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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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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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
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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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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.
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