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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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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
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
So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Department Everything Facility Now Worst
Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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Art Artist Business Creative Interest Like Spiritual
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
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
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Artist Interesting More Work
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 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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Art Business Idea Selling Spectacle Themselves Ugliest
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
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
As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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Design Feeling Hell Picture Software Thousand Word
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
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

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