 And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. |
| Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. |
| I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. |
| I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated. |
| The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture. |
| After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is. |
| Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right. |
| They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense. |
| There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. |
| Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. |
| I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity. |
| Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new. |
| Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper. |
| Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot. |
| Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period. |
| I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. |
| And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. |
| Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim. |
| Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. |
| But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness. |
