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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Giving Life Like Mind Progress Thing Up
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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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