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.

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.

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

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

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

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