There Is A Black Which Is Old

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.

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.

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.

Only A Bad Artist Thinks He Has A Good Idea. A Good Artist Does Not Need Anything.

An Artist Who Dedicates His Life To Art, Burdens His Art With His Life, And His Life With His Art.