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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.

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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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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 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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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 often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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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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