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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Do Doing Give Like Thing
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Beam Feel Happiness Life Pull
Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Forever Mind Painting Perception Seen
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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