It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.

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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.

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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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Everyone Really Serve Wanted
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Inspiration Moment Take
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.

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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Remembering
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Eye
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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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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Crashes Forward Make Pull Repentance Tower Withdrawl
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Adventurous Artwork Attractiveness Joyful Stremous
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.

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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Doing Happy Way
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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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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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Satisfy Think
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the 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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Perception Seen
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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Perfect
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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Aware Made Ourself Perfect
It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

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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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Must Through
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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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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Classical Tradition
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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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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Mysterious Respond Thing
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.

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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
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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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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