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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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