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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 hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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