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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I paint with my back to the world
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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