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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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I paint with my back to the world
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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