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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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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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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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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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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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 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 is not the spiritual side of business.
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