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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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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