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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art Avant-Garde Everything Simplify
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
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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Activity Artist Color Creative Mature Paint Painting
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Consuming Last Make One Painting Time
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
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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Abstract Art Fifty Nothing Present Year
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art Serious Seriously Taken
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
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 as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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Art Artist Businessman Painting Uglier
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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Art Artist Connected Country Exhibition Museum Outside Painting School
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
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
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
Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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Art Artist Business Creative Interest Like Spiritual
So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Department Everything Facility Now Worst

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