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.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

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

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

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.

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

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