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

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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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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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