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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

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Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?'

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Study the old masters. Look at nature. Watch out for armpits.

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

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

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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.

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

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Vagueness is a 'romantic' value.... an emphasis on geometry is an emphasis on the 'known', on order and knowledge.

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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal.

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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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Fine art can only be defined as exclusive, negative, absolute and timeless. It is not practical, useful, related, applicable, or subservient to anything else.

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It's been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting's meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.

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What greater challenge today.... to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space?

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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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The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art-as-art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.

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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.

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