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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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 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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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I paint with my back to the world
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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