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

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

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.

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.

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

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.