I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
AGNES MARTINI 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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your 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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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