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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Do Doing Give Like Thing
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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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 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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
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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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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