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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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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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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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Beyond Expand Mind People Perfection Realizing Response World
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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
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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Beam Feel Happiness Life Pull
I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Every Happiness Living Thing Want
Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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Fact Feet Know Path Truth
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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
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
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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