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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.

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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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Art Beauty Capable Happy Make Response Thinking Transcendent Transendemt
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Art Certainly Hint Horizontal Life Nonobjective Painting Thinking
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Every Happiness Living Thing Want
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same
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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Beauty Beyond Mind Mysterious Respond Thing Thinking World
The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Artwork Manipulation Material Mind Result State
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking
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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Closed Everyone Inspiration Mind Realizing Through Time
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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Favour Idea Idealist Minimalist Minimise Themselves Want
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Learned Mediate Think Thinking Used
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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Fact Feet Know Path Truth
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Beauty Eye Life Mind Mystery
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking
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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Done Error False Next Seem Step
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
Anything can be painted without representation.
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Anything Painting Representation
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art Emotion Feeling Representation Subtle
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Everybody Hint Nature Respond Think
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
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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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Adventurous Artwork Attractiveness Joyful Stremous
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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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
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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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Hear Mind Original Penetrate Telling Work

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