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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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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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