There Is A Black Which Is Old

My Paintings Are The Last Paintings One Can Make.

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.

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.

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 For A Picture, If It Isn't Worth A Thousand Words, The Hell With It.