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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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 is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and 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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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