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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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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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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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