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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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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Every Happiness Living Thing Want
One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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