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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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 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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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