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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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 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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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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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 paint with my back to the world
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Concern Exactly Experience Pursue Relentlessly Same Truth
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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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