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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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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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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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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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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 happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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I paint with my back to the world
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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