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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Forever Mind Painting Perception Seen
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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 not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Giving Life Like Mind Progress Thing Up
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
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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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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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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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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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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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall

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