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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I paint with my back to the 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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the 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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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of 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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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