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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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Art Chinese Class Especially History Painting People Person
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
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
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
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 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
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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
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Artist Interesting More Work
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
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 too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art Serious Seriously Taken
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
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Academic Desire Marketplace Opposite Tried Try Wish
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
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
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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Appearance Art Artist Bondage Emancipate Forever

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