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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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