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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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