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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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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
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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Black Conventionality Emphasize Idea Intellectuality 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 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
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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Dozen Fact Idea Interesting Making Money Painting Selling Take
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
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
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
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
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Consuming Last Make One Painting Time
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 tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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Academic Desire Marketplace Opposite Tried Try Wish
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 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
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Darkness Evil Force Light Painting Peace Power

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