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 still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

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.

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

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

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