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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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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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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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