Art Is Too Serious To Be Taken

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.

We All Name Ourselves. We Call Ourselves Artists. Nobody Asks Us. Nobody Says You Are Or You Aren't.

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.

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.

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.