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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.

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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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