I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.Ad Reinhardt
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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