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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
I paint with my back to the world
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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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Artist Artwork Material May Response Theme
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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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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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same
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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Everybody Hint Nature Respond Think
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Learned Mediate Think Thinking Used
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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Happiness Mind Often Paint Perfect Stop Think Thinking Tranquility
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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Beauty Beyond Mind Mysterious Respond Thing Thinking World
It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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
The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Every Happiness Living Thing Want
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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