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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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 not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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