Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

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.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

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.