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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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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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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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