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

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

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

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.

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

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.