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

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

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

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.

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.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.