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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.

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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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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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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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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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I paint with my back to the world
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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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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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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