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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.