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 busin….

Art is art. Everything else is everything else..

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not..

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 int….

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist..

Art is not the spiritual side of business..

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art..

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist..

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance..

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 col….

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 sti….

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it..

Art is too serious to be taken seriously..

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything..

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil..

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace..

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..

The more an artist works the more there is to do..

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 wit….

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't..

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department….