The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
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 artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
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.
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.