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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.

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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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Art Completely Lacking Memory Perfect Subject Sublime Substance
The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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Devotion Enormous Instead Life Oneself Pitfall Self
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
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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