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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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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 everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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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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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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I paint with my back to the world
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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