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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
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
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Art Happiness Inspiration Moment Surprise Take
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art Emotion Feeling Representation Subtle
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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Fantastic Like Mistake Seem Wanted
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Artist Awareness Mind Own State Work
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
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 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
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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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall
The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Every Happiness Living Thing Want
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
Anything can be painted without representation.
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Anything Painting Representation
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Giving Life Like Mind Progress Thing Up
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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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection

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