The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

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

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.

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

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.