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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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