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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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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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 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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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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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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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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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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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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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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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