I Want To Emphasize The Idea Of

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.

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.

Painting Cannot Be The Only Activity Of A Mature 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.

Art Is Not The Spiritual Side Of Business.