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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

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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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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 manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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