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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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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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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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