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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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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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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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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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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