I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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 manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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