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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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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of 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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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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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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your 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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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