As For A Picture, If It Isn't

I Want To Emphasize The Idea Of Black As Intellectuality And Conventionality.

I Tried To Oppose The Academic To The Marketplace.

We All Name Ourselves. We Call Ourselves Artists. Nobody Asks Us. Nobody Says You Are Or You Aren't.

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.

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.