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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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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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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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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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Art Completely Lacking Memory Perfect Subject Sublime Substance
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
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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