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
AGNES MARTINPollock 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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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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