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.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

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

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

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

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.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.