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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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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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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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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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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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 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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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