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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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 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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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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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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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