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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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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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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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 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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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