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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.

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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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 is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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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