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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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