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.

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

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

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

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