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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 worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of 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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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
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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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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