“I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?”

Anything can be painted without representation.

It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.

There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

I paint with my back to the world

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.

Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

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.

The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.

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

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

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

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.

And until I had it fixed in my mind – unchanged, mysterious and beautiful

Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.

If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.