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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. 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.
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.
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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.
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.
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, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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.
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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.
Art is not the spiritual side of business.
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
