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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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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 adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
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
They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
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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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same
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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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 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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
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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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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