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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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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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Artist Ask Call Name Nobody Ourselves
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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Black Dull Fresh Lustrous Shadow Sunlight
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
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art Avant-Garde Everything Simplify
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
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Anything Artist Good Idea Need Thinking
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Consuming Last Make One Painting Time
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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Abstract Abstraction Art Artist Only Way
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 Artist Burden Creative Dedicate Life
So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Department Everything Facility Now Worst
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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Art Artist Idea Museums Situation Talk University
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
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 should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Appearance Art Artist Bondage Emancipate Forever
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Academic Desire Marketplace Opposite Tried Try Wish
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

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