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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Hear Mind Original Penetrate Telling Work
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking
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
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
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
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
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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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
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
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Devotion Enormous Instead Life Oneself Pitfall Self
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Art Happiness Inspiration Moment Surprise Take
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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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
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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Art Awareness Beauty Eye Life Mystery Perfection Think
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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