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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.

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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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