The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

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

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.

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.

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