If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you’d want to suggest someplace, but there’s no place. I wouldn’t know where to send a student to study.

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.

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

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that ’first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

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

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.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.