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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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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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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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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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