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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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
I paint with my back to the world
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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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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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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