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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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