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

I Like The Idea Of The Museum World And The University-academic Situation Where Artists Talk To Each Other Or Where Artists Or Art Students Study With Artists.

Only A Bad Artist Thinks He Has A Good Idea. A Good Artist Does Not Need Anything.

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.

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