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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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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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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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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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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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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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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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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