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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.

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The artist works by awareness of his own 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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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