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

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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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