The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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.