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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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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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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I paint with my back to the world
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