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

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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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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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 manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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 paint with my back to the world
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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