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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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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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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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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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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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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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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