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.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

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

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 more an artist works the more there is to do.