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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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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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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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I paint with my back to the world
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