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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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