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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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