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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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