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.
I've taken on all the bad terms of the '30s. Like meaningless, useless, imageless-those kinds of words. Words like inhuman, sterile, cold-they became cool.