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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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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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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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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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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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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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