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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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