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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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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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I paint with my back to the world
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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